The Importance Of Handwriting In Schools

Everyone needs to learn how to write and therefore, handwriting should be taught in schools. Handwriting is used for multiple things and in many different ways. Cursive handwriting is a form of writing that needs to be taught in schools for students to learn. Not only does it make learning how to read easier, but also writing helps you in school or work, and you write everyday and you cannot just learn how on your own. So for these reasons, cursive writing should be taught in school.

Reading is a very important factor in life. you read everyday whether it’s a text, email, books, or articles. Reading is a daily essential for becoming a better writer and being able to have a much broader vocabulary. Through reading your IQ raises, you learn a better diction, and have more of a normal use of words for public speaking. Most people who struggle with public speaking are told to read because it is proven to help create a more natural flow of vocabulary through normal speech. Reading is particularly important in knowing current events and understanding history. To understand history the capability of reading is imperative in discovering new languages and being able to understand historic writings.

There is an outgoing amount

of supporters who say putting pen to paper is a natural stimulate to the brain and helps improve the overall processing of the brain. The brain tends to process faster and problem solve more efficiently when writing. Whether writing in cursive or in standard print the positives are retained for both, although writing in cursive is said to increase the brains function even by the smallest margins more than those of writing in print. This argument is made through the scores on the SAT writing portion of the test where students who wrote in cursive scored slightly higher than those that printed. Now perhaps the students who wrote in cursive were more intelligent than those who wrote in print, but writing in cursive or a hybrid format does improve the speed of your writing which in return increases the function of the brain. With this in mind, since the brains function is increased that means more thoughts are flowing out of your mind and on to the paper thus creating a more meaningful essay with more length. Suzanne baruch Asherson said “… students need a variety of technologies, including cursive handwriting, to succeed.” This should be true for all students because writing in cursive improves thought process and efficiency of writing. Cursive is definitely a form of writing worth preserving.
Keeping a writing form that has slowly started to disappear from schools and students alike seems nearly impossible with the expansion of writing through technology. Most will argue that even though cursive is the fastest way to write, that there is no real point of learning the form. This is argued because in todays world most written assignments are done by computer. Since most teachers are looking for the simplest way to get through the grading process, telling a student to do writing assignments through an application such as Microsoft word, keeps work neat and easy to grade without having to squint to read what a student has written. Then comes the issue of students who don’t have access to a computer in class or for when they are taking notes and the professor is sprinting through a lecture verbally and you cant keep up. For that reason alone cursive serves a very important purpose in any students life. Just as Jimmy Bryant has said “ we are becoming completely dependent on machines to communicate with others.” When technology goes out what writing will still be prevalent? Cursive is a writing that should be kept around for many years to come.
Still to this day handwriting is used throughout the world.

The cultural tradition is not dying out due to technology. Although there is a less prevalent support in cursive writing as there is in print, it should still be taught today in schools to help students more effectively write essays off the most heightened state of mind and at the quickest speed to maximize the efficiency of the time given. Everyone needs to be taught a form of handwriting, whether it be cursive or pint. Learning how to write effectively in either form of handwriting has a positive effect on the brain and helps in your everyday walk of life. Handwriting helps with public speaking and also is said the help make those who practice writing often smarter by raising their

IQ.