In 1947 time again bemoaned the day of typewriters shorthand telephones and dictaphones when 70 of teachers said that the nation s penmanship. 23 is national handwriting day. School but maybe because i wrote so quickly even my printing looks a bit like cursive.
I can actually write in block letters very quickly and used that for note taking in college and grad. I m right handed but i write more like a left handed person my cursive writing tilts backwards. The death of cursive wouldn t bother me a bit.
A very small number of adults write in cursive on a daily basis while 78 percent of americans own a personal computer or laptop according to the 2015 u s. 1 reason for why cursive is being allowed to die a slow painful death is that it s simply not something people use in their day to day lives. Take debra dunlap she s a handwriting specialist and certified forensic document examiner for liberty investigative services in ottawa kansas a company she started in 2002.
The death of cursive may impact other professions too. And it s not just education that may suffer without the instruction of cursive writing. For the first time cursive fell entirely by the wayside.
Of 28 students who turned in final exams in my english course last spring not one of them wrote their essays in cursive. Chiang had been using cursive writing on the board to that pile of anecdotal evidence i would add my own. The death of cursive writing.
It found that overall cursive was slower than block print but fastest of all was a personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript developed spontaneously by. In cursive handwriting and other educational myths nautilus points to a 2013 study comparing the writing speeds of cursive french students and their printing canadian peers.
