Cursive Writing By Derek Lague

People of our generation have difficulty reading in cursive writing, am I right? But the people of our generation have difficulty using and reading it since we use it less and less during time which is frustrating since one day cursive writing will disappear. This is why teachers should continue teaching cursive writing. First of all we won’t be able to read historical documents, for example a journal. Also, we use it in our daily lives, and lastly, it gives the community creativity.

           

Imagine you find a top secret journal your great grandmother gives you once she dies, you open it anxiously, and find out the journal is in cursive writing which you are not able to read, couldn’t this be frustrating? If we stop teaching cursive writing, this is exactly what is going to happen except it could have a bigger impact than on your grandmother’s book. Take the example of history, you may find a historical document which lasted 100 years ago, but no one in the society is able to read the document, this will surely not advance our history!

            

Secondly, you may not notice it but we use cursive writing in our daily lives! Books, letters, documents, poetry are the example of things we read that may be written in cursive writing. And this is why we should continue learning cursive writing because by continuing this, we will develop our reading skills and not stop and analyse the word every 10 seconds! This will help in our school succession since we all know reading is an important skill to succeed school, and by reading and understanding cursive writing it may help you have a better grade than the one who have difficulty reading cursive writing!

            

Lastly, cursive writing adds creativity and originality to our society. Take the example of signatures or a piece of art such as graffiti, if we stop learning cursive writing, we won’t have those cool piece of art and signatures anymore. Our community will always have that sloppy, squiggly handwriting. Also if we take of those cool signatures, we will have to find a new way to prove that for example, this is your check since if we have that squiggly handwriting, it is easy to copy down your name and people could steal the check from you!

In conclusion, teachers should continue teaching cursive writing since if we stop teaching it, we won’t be able to read historical documents, we also use it in our daily lives without knowing it, and lastly it gives the society creativity. So do you agree with me that teachers should continue cursive writing?