Should We Learn It, Or Should We Not? By Sara Kempf

Modern Technology VS. Handwritten Cursive

I have been writing in print for over 9 years and I haven't had one problem with it. Why would we need to learn a fancy handwriting? It's only more work. The importance of writing is not how fancy it is, it's how neat and understandable it is.

When it comes to teachers asking us to write a complete essay in cursive, typed or handwritten, I'm pretty sure the students have tendency to type it with a fancy-crooked font. It's very rare that we will see a student actually write his or her essay in cursive handwriting. Writing instead of typing is just so much work for nothing. So why complicate your life even more? You shouldn't even 'write' an essay, it should be typed, black on white. Next time you know what you should do: Type it- it's way easier.

If you can read and write, you can do anything with the letters and create new words. I think this is why the majority of elementary schools stopped teaching cursive writing. I know this because when I was in elementary school we used to practice cursive but after a while the teacher just stopped giving us the lesson. We would be writing and reading instead. Later on, you're going to be writing with a neat handwriting print, I guarantee you. The more you get the hang of writing, your hand will be making twirls in between letters, and the next thing you know you're writing in cursive without learning how. You don't have to learn it to do it. It will directly come to you, naturally.

What do cursive help you do? Write better? No, I don't think so. It's an extra handwriting that we don't have to learn how to write it. Sure thing, in 20 years from now, we might write in cursive, since we'll be getting older our writing and vocabulary will evolve. Although computers will always be there and it will evolve too.

So what would you do if you saw a pen and paper on the right, and a computer on the left with a blank page and a fancy font waiting for you? I'm 100% you will be choosing the left side since you won't get cramps in your hands for writing for hours in cursive, don't you? Like people say: Choose the easy way!