Comments on: Watch Out Cursive – The Future’s Wondering Why You’re Still Here http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/ The (un)Pretentious Journals of Brad Bolman Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: WP Themes http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-601 WP Themes Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:16:52 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-601 Genial dispatch and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Thank you seeking your information. Genial dispatch and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Thank you seeking your information.

]]> By: Barbara http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Barbara Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:11 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-79 All valid comments. As an elementary teacher (now substitute), I have watched the transition to computers with resignation, and kept right up with it. I agree that, as long as there are people living who write in cursive, the better to know how to read it. Many people get into genealogy and find original documents from their past. What a horrible loss to then be unable to read them. I have letters from my great-great grandfather from the Civil War; and French letters from my great-grandmother written from France. Cursive is a discipline I wouldn't want to be without. As to the writing of it, what concerns me most is where signatures are required. Cursive has always been harder to copy than printing according to handwriting analysts. With the age of computers taking over (and again, technology changes the software so quickly) cursive signatures can remain constant, for purposes of securing legal documents. I always tell my students that if they don't continue to doodle with their signatures after they learn cursive, their driver's license signature will eternally look like a third grader's! That gets them going. One should have their final signature by age 16, (14 in some cases) so forget calligraphy and cursive in college. All valid comments. As an elementary teacher (now substitute), I have watched the transition to computers with resignation, and kept right up with it. I agree that, as long as there are people living who write in cursive, the better to know how to read it. Many people get into genealogy and find original documents from their past. What a horrible loss to then be unable to read them. I have letters from my great-great grandfather from the Civil War; and French letters from my great-grandmother written from France. Cursive is a discipline I wouldn’t want to be without. As to the writing of it, what concerns me most is where signatures are required. Cursive has always been harder to copy than printing according to handwriting analysts. With the age of computers taking over (and again, technology changes the software so quickly) cursive signatures can remain constant, for purposes of securing legal documents. I always tell my students that if they don’t continue to doodle with their signatures after they learn cursive, their driver’s license signature will eternally look like a third grader’s! That gets them going. One should have their final signature by age 16, (14 in some cases) so forget calligraphy and cursive in college.

]]> By: Kate Gladstone http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Kate Gladstone Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:14:04 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-47 Handwriting will probably matter for a long, long time (at least as long as computers exist and can lose their power in hurricanes ... )<br>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.<br><br>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. <br>But why require students to write in a style that the fastest and clearest handwriters avoid?<br><br>Kate Gladstone<br>handwriting instruction and remediation specialist<br>Founder, Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works <br>Director, the World Handwriting Contest<br><a href="http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com">http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com</a> 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

]]> By: Scade http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Scade Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:36:13 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-44 Hmmm, well written column! but i hate to say i didn't finish it because it was too long for my attention span. ;)<br>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.<br><br>cursive is something that should be learned in college or high school as "an art" subject.<br>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 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

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