In my opinion, I believe schools should continue to teach cursive. Cursive is and will be a lifelong skill, it can help lots of people, and help train our minds. First of all, cursive will be needed as a lifelong skill. Although technology is taking over the world and we no longer need our signature to identify us, it will still be needed. According to “ Baltimore Sun”, Joel Sher, a lawyer said that when he sorts paper, he no longer needs to sign his name because it is
An essay titled "does Texting Affect Writing?" was published by Michaela Cullington while she studied to gain her masters degree in speech and language pathology at Marywood University. In her essay she claims that texting and texting language neither benefits or harms a students academic writing. Michaela Cullington asserts that a conspiracy has been going around concerning how texting can limit a students writing ability in ways such as not being able to convey emotion in writing, forgetting how to write a formal English paper and use correct punctuation, and most of all a decline in spelling.
Michaela Cullington, author of “Does Texting Affect Writing,” declares texting does not affect students writing. Cullington uses facts to support her overall claim, and gets many teachers’ opinions on the subject. The author did not use valuable sources, which questioned her overall purpose. Cullington used a lot of her own opinion throughout the text, but lacked supporting facts. The story has many flaws, making Cullington argument on how texting is not affecting students writing, not reliable.
In her essay "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington presents her argument that texting does not impact formal writing written by students. She discusses the concerns presented by many people about how texting language can transfer into writing, but through the use of personal experiences and credible sources she discusses how this is not true. Her use of multiple different studies and situations help boost her argument and allow the reader to truly see how students actually do formal writing. She presents a strong argument as to why those who believe students don't have the control and knowledge to write formally, instead of with text speak, are wrong.
It showed that students do not believe textspeak is appropriate in formal writing assignments. They recognize the difference between texting friends and writing formally and know what is appropriate in each situation. This was proven true in the student samples, in which no examples of textspeak were used" (Cullington 367). In order words, Cullington's research showed that there is little effect on writing ability from texting. She collected sample essays and found no evidence of textspeak.
Writing received a lot of criticism, especially from Socrates, a Greek philosopher. According to Socrates writing was mnemonic and not interactive. Socrates claims “the ultimate effect of writing will be to weaken memory, not strengthen it” (842). According to Baron “we remember this because Plato wrote it down” (842). Socrates views are very disputable since he claims that writing will weaken the memory, yet we know about him because his student Plato wrote it down.
All of these factors combine and work well together to form a well-executed argument within Cullington’s essay. Cullington begins her essay by addressing her opposition: “It’s taking over our lives” (pg. 361). She cites studies done that suggest that a decline in the quality of students’ formal writing has occurred since the advent of text messaging, and she also cites teachers who believe that their own students’ works are influenced for the worse by the students’ being accustomed to texting and using textspeak. Cullington then proposes her opposing position that the writing of students is unaffected by their use of texting and text speak. She also cites studies that support her thesis that text messaging and textspeak do not have an effect on
I also don’t support my mom’s opinion that we should go back to our old customs and handwrite our work in school instead of doing it on the computer. I understand that it would help with our spelling skills, but doing work on computers is much neater and faster. Spelling is always a salient skill to have, even in the age of technology, because it may sometimes come in handy. In conclusion, terrible spelling is becoming more and more common in
When people spend time away from civilization and society they forget what the normalities of that society are and begin to create their own. “Lord of the flies” by William Golding is a gothic horror style novel written about a group of english school boys who find themselves deserted on an island after a major plane crash. The boys who age from as young as six to as old as twelve find themselves on the island alone with no adults and are essentially left to fend for themselves. After spending so such a long amount of time away from civilization has led them to forget how to act in an way that would fit the idea if norm in an english society and instead slowly begin to make their own societal norms on the island. A character who embodies
On the opposing side, arguments are being brought up that cursive writing is outdated and will end up being useless in a couple of years. Though this can be the case in our society is becoming too dependent on technology when it’s not a very reliable source. Many people that are against cursive handwriting still being taught in schools have decided to use the argument stating left-handed writers are being treated at a disadvantage. I am a left handed writer myself and I don’t face any discomfort when writing in print of in cursive with a
Not So Fast”, conducts her own study with a few colleagues to take notes on how students writing skills are changing. She decides to conduct another one twenty five years later to see how much the writing skills have changed since technology has been updated and became more available to students. She found that “students today are writing more than ever before.” Although we still have the same amount of writing errors as before, the patterns of errors are different. Many people argue that technology is only making our writing skill worse, this study helps to prove a different theory.
Data shows that computers have a remediating effect on males. Edwards-Groves, C. J. (2011). The multimodal writing process: changing practices in contemporary classrooms. Language & Education: An International Journal, 25(1), 49-64.
Have you ever had that weird situation where you needed to sign something but you didn't know cursive, because it was not taught in your school? Cursive really should be taught in schools, but only to a certain degree. Kids should be taught to read cursive and to write their name in cursive, but not how to completely write in cursive. Cursive is faster and neater than normal printing.
Most importantly cursive writing helps the rain develop by bringing the left and right lobes of the brain together. Some people may believe that cursive is not something students should learn how to write because technology is taking over, although I am certain that technology is not always dependable and handwriting is there whenever someone may need to communicate. My thoughts are that students should still learn cursive writing while in school.
Design Journal Criterion A Introduction: My global cause is on the impacts of gun control in the world (primarily the U.S.). The reason I chose this case is because of the past yearly (2014-2016) protests and debates that don 't seem to have definite solutions at the best. The problem overall is the idea of control of firearms. There are pros and cons to that I see for gun control itself and I believe that there is a big problem with how it’s presented in our country: People get shot, take away the guns.
