The Bolman Leak: Watch Out Cursive - The Future’s Wondering Why You’re Still Here
Scade
· 1 year ago
Hmmm, well written column! but i hate to say i didn't finish it because it was too long for my attention span. ;) Anyways, first thing first, i don't write cursive! i and i personally think that the cursive that most people write and the cursive that is drilled into ones head at the tender grade of 3 is rubbish. why? because when you become a bread winning adult, you'll still write cursive as a third grader.
cursive is something that should be learned in college or high school as "an art" subject. my advice, learn calligraphy, english letter script-writing AND cursive. Combine these together and knock the socks off anyone, be it employer, girlfriend or client, that's what I am doing and it works, trust me
Kate Gladstone
· 1 year ago
Handwriting will probably matter for a long, long time (at least as long as computers exist and can lose their power in hurricanes ... ) Research shows, however, that the fastest, clearest handwriters avoid cursive. They join some, not all, of the letters -- making just the easiest joins, and skipping the rest -- and use print-like rather than cursive-style forms for those letters that "disagree" between printing and cursive.
Since learning to read cursive takes an hour or less (I've taught five-year-olds to do it), and learning to write cursive takes a year or more, I do recommend that students learn how to read cursive for the sake of those who still write in cursive. But why require students to write in a style that the fastest and clearest handwriters avoid?
Kate Gladstone handwriting instruction and remediation specialist Founder, Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works Director, the World Handwriting Contest http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com
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Anyways, first thing first, i don't write cursive! i and i personally think that the cursive that most people write and the cursive that is drilled into ones head at the tender grade of 3 is rubbish. why? because when you become a bread winning adult, you'll still write cursive as a third grader.
cursive is something that should be learned in college or high school as "an art" subject.
my advice, learn calligraphy, english letter script-writing AND cursive. Combine these together and knock the socks off anyone, be it employer, girlfriend or client, that's what I am doing and it works, trust me
Research shows, however, that the fastest, clearest handwriters avoid cursive. They join some, not all, of the letters -- making just the easiest joins, and skipping the rest -- and use print-like rather than cursive-style forms for those letters that "disagree" between printing and cursive.
Since learning to read cursive takes an hour or less (I've taught five-year-olds to do it), and learning to write cursive takes a year or more, I do recommend that students learn how to read cursive for the sake of those who still write in cursive.
But why require students to write in a style that the fastest and clearest handwriters avoid?
Kate Gladstone
handwriting instruction and remediation specialist
Founder, Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works
Director, the World Handwriting Contest
http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com