Cursive: the Slanted Script
When I first began to learn cursive in Mrs. Schuler’s second grade class, I wasn’t too delighted about the fact that I had to sit silently in my desk for what seemed to be an hour learning how to turn my page to the side and trying to remember how many humps an “m” and “n” have. It was incredibly tedious sitting there watching a video and following the steps as Mrs. Schuler would survey the progress of my class, never hesitating to correct us if we were doing it wrong. As a naive second grader, I never thought that what my class and I were learning wasn’t being taught in other second grade classes. I didn’t realize that other children weren’t having trouble making their capital g’s look as close to the sample in their booklet. I definitely didn’t think then that I would be grateful for knowing how to write in cursive.
Throughout grade school, my teachers would require us to write in cursive everything that we would hand in. Occasionally I would hear a few students complaining and, as we got closer to becoming high school students, I’d listen to them talk happily about the fact that the teachers didn’t require cursive to be used. Although I didn’t realize it when I was learning cursive, I have come to appreciate the loopy way of writing and I’m very fortunate to know how to read and write that way. My classmates and I have a choice whether to write in print or cursive, but some kids don’t ever get to have that option.
The Common Core State Standard is “an education initiative that aims to align state curricula along national standards” (“National Poll Reveals That Cursive Writing Education Is In Danger.”). It is a recent initiative and since then has been well received throughout 45 states in the United ...
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That is why cursive should still be taught in schools, along with keyboarding skills. Technology is exponentially growing and it is important for children to be knowledgeable about computers, but that doesn’t mean they should ignore the written word. Students should have a choice whether to write in cursive or print, but first they must be exposed to it. They might have trouble remembering how many humps an “m” and “n” have or think that slanting the page is superfluous, but if cursive is omitted, they won’t get to experience cursive and come to love it, or hate it. Things can be said about cursive, but it can’t be said that there are disadvantages to learning it. Why then get rid of something that wasn’t damaging in the first place?
By being educated at a young age in literacy, I included it in my pottery and also working for newspaper companies strengthened my form of expression. Working in the South Carolina Republican and then later on The Edgefield Hive as a typesetter, it was a good experience helping my literacy skills but I didn’t feel fully indulged. I did it because I had to but also to learn. By understand typography, I was able to understand the science of the anatomy of type. They taught me the use of size, spacing, and placement of typography in order to show hierarchy, direction and attraction. I became to understanding that type is a collective of shapes and strokes. Master Abner 's newspaper did not get a lot of publicity and hit a crisis, which led him to cease publication of the newspapers. Master Abner then moved to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1832. He decided to leave me back in Edgefield and...
Cursive should not be taught in schools! Schools don’t need cursive. There are other things that kids could be doing in class. Read my next paragraph to find out what and why.
Many were once against typography when it first emerged. One prime example was Plato, who Ong and Postman both mention at some point in their work. In fact, Ong states that “Writing, Plato has Socrates say in the Phaedrus, is inhuman, pretending to establish outside the mind what in reality can only be in the mind. Writing is simply a thing, something to be manipulated, something inhuman, artificial, a manufactured product” (Ong 27). He then goes on to say that many have made the same argument about computers today. However, the essential message from this quote is that many believed that these technologies would have a negative effect on the way we think. Ong goes on to disprove Plato’s rationale by explaining that “…his philosophically analytic thought, including his analysis of the effects of writing, was only possible because of the effects that writing was having on mental processes” (Ong 29). Due to the fact that he was even able to analyze typography meant that he was subsuming to typography’s nature. Postman would agree that Plato would not have been able to formulate his analytic views if it were not for writing. Postman wrote that literacy is highly rational. He iterated that discourse in a culture dominated by print tend to have a coherent arrangement of an idea, a fact, or a claim. Postman would explain to Ong that the cause of this is similar to some of the reasons Plato
The affect of technology on children is greater than people may think. Ten years ago, there were different ways children were taught that contrast with the way children are taught in schools today. One of the biggest lessons taught in the third grade was how to write in cursive. Nowadays, teaching children these vital lessons is becoming a thing of the past. The rise of technology has largely contributed to the decline of cursive writing being taught to elementary school students. The need to push children to pass state exams has pushed more of that focus away from teaching this style of handwriting. Denise Smith Amos states in her article “Is Cursive’s Day in Classroom Done?” that, “Common Core is silent on cursive, but it prioritizes
In conclusion, Cursive writing is very well out dated. We use technology now more than ever. Maybe a new common core standard should be computer skills. As cursive writing holds no benefits to students. The truth comes out, cursive writing has essentially disapeared. So why ever bring it
I believe school students should be taught how to write in cursive as a required part of the curriculum. According to the article, "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool", it is stated that, "Medical brain scans show that writting in cursive helps with fine motor-skill development and stimulates both the right and left part of your brain." Learning how to write in cursive doesn't only help your brain become more developed, it also helps students with dyslexia or those who have a reading disorder.
...he Constitution or Declaration of Independence- the very documents that contain the values and morals of our country. Cursive handwriting is no longer taught in many schools, thus impairing student’s ability to create neural passageways, improve fluency, and gain dexterity. Sure, there is no particular daily need for the delicate script, but letting the writing go extinct is unethical. Many countries describe the USA as lazy and culture poor- we need to prove these other nations wrong. Not only for the benefit of getting a better reputation, but also because we respect our language and want to preserve it for future generations. The death of cursive can cease. There is a vaccine, a cure, an antidote. This cure? Teaching the language in schools once again, typing less and scribing more, and most importantly informing individuals about the value of this set of ABC’s.
In my honest opinon, I think that cursive should still be taught in schools. In the first passage of "Cursive Is a Brain Tool", they ask if cursive is not important anymore. They give very good reasons on why we should still teach it. In the first passage of "Cursive Is a Twenty-First Centry Dinosaur", they also ask why we should even value cursive. Well, in my next paragraph I am going to tell you why we should still value cursive more than we should vaule typing.
Education is changing.Today, public school have a lot ot tool to used,so the student can be more sucessful in life.one of them is writing in cursive.I will discuss with you why I consider public school student should be taught how to write in cursive as a required part of the cirriculum.
I will preface this literacy narrative by a warning: this is not, in any way, an essay about my positive academic experiences with reading and writing. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE reading, but this fondness was not rooted in me because of school. Writing, on the other hand, has been the bane of my scholastic journey since the start of my high school years. This could explain why I waited until my very last quarter at university to take my required writing class.
This editorial was written by the Denver post editorial board and discusses the opposing views on keeping cursive writing in U.S schools curriculums. It emphasizes cursive as a dying art form and expounds on how technology is more important than the traditions of cursive hand writing in this new day and age. It argues that cursive should be taken out of the curriculum completely and recently it has been. Cursive has been deemed irrelevant and kicked to the curb, but for this paper I will be dissecting the editorial and not this direct issue. That being said, in every argument it is important to remember three things; ethos, pathos and logos. These things give any argument strength and appeal. In this paper I will be discussing the authors of this editorials use of these wringing principles.
Leaving Our Mark With the excessive abundance of technology available to today’s youth many school administrators are focused on teaching keyboard and technological skills, and therefore are leaving many children without the knowledge to properly write in cursive. Cursive handwriting is an important aspect of a proper education and should be brought back to the school curriculum for the benefit of the students. As a child in elementary I was taught to write in cursive right along with basic handwriting, and It was a mandatory part of the public school curriculum at the time. Learning to write in cursive had many beneficial aspects for me as a child that children today need as much as I did then.
To begin with, cursive writing should be taught in school. In my opinion, I think that writing in cursive should be taught in elementary school. First, cursive gives more options to read and write in a fun way. Also, it helps with kids right now so that when they get older they will be able to write their name in cursive, for example they would use it for writing there signature on a check, or when they go to grocery stores they have to write their name in cursive on the machine so the store knows you signature. Lastly, it will really help in adult life and make it easy.
Wow look at this, writing in cursive is 50% literacy and there is not enough old-fashioned being taught in schools, whether it’s cursive, manuscript, or typed. In my opinion I strongly believe that cursive should still be taught in schools today. Because you need to be able to read cursive. You also need to learn how to write your signature, and even learn a valuable skill. So, that’s why I think we should learn cursive in schools today.
Cursive writting is a big part of being professional. It's true that technology is changing at a rapid speed. As said in the article "Cursive Is aTwenty-First Century Dinosaur" hand writting has tooken a back seat. Only because technology grows by the day. I feel that children should still learn and practice cursive hand writting because it is apart of everyday life. learning to write can improve your motor skillz more than typing on a computer.