Reading one of today's papers, (I read 3 a day), I noticed an article about cursive writing and the demise of writing. I have been fond of saying that it is a problem. First of all, many students are unable to write cursively. This is a problem when faced with the prospect of writing an exam which is written in essay form. In order to write cursively which does not come naturally students need to slow down and this can be a problem when trying to get down as much information as possible in the time allotted.
Another issue is that information sent on computers will not be available in years to come. Who will write the book about the many messages sent back and for between people. Who will have the technology to retrieve the messages. We can retrieve Shakespeare's thoughts, an example of his hand writing was included in the article but the thoughts of modern writers who only use the computer will be lost.
An interesting problem.
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