...decades ago, cursive writing has a famed and legendary past. It was once a vital element of American education but is now becoming an archaic artefact as technology advancement and the requirement of more regulated tests push it out of the education system. Cursive writing should be scrapped out of the education system for there is no need of wasting time and resources to continue teaching a skill that won’t be beneficial to the students in the near future. For many students in America, cursive writing is as foreign as the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egypt. In most colleges and universities, more students are increasingly using tablet computers and laptops to take notes rather than the old adage of using pen and paper. With the changes in technology, handwritten letters are rare to come by. Most people have changed with the dynamics of technology. Most communication is done using email, Skype and Facebook as opposed to manual letter writing. Just like calligraphy, cursive is unnecessary. Writing is seen as a means of communicating. Technically talking, we are past the times of physical writing as an art. Whatever can be created by a pen, a computer can recreate it much better. Welcome to the world of technology. If it can be printed then it can be communicated in the penned form. The argument that cursive writing aids in refining the motor skills of students is completely untrue. There is no much difference between cursive and printing. In cursive as well as printing...
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...Cursive Remember learning in third grade then both of the parts of were connected but now not as much .When you write in cursive it connects both the sides of your brain that makes path ways which will in enhances your learning. Three years ago I was in third grade that is when I learned cursive and I loved it. Literacy is 50% of writing and if we do not write in cursive how are we supposed to make that up. Writing in cursive helps with motor skills, to connect the brain and lastly reading legal documents. In my opinion cursive still should be in schools but some people may say that cursive takes time but it really does not. First of all cursive helps with fine motor skills. They also help with writing longer sentences also helps with the size of the letters. Kids that learn cursive will be able to work with older people. When you learn cursive you will know something that most people do not know. This form of writing should have been gone a long time ago but it is still hear. Cursive helps with dyslexia which is part of fine motor skills....
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...Have you ever gotten a note from your grandparents? With each word letters connected? Well that is called cursive writing. In my opinion cursive writing should still be taught in schools today. To begin with, cursive writing should still be taught in schools today because. In college students will be able to take notes faster instead of printing notes. Printing notes requires a lot of raising and lowering the pen or pencil point, for each letter which slows you down. On the other hand, with cursive you only must raise and lower your pencil or pen, at the beginning and end of each word. Witch is quicker, easier, and is less time-consuming when taking notes, or while writing an essay for a class. As adult's students can sign their names as...
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...Patnaik, Bhupendra Kumar Abstract -- Character recognition is one of the most interesting and challenging research areas in the field of Image processing. English character recognition has been extensively studied in the last half century. Nowadays different methodologies are in widespread use for character recognition. Document verification, digital library, reading bank deposit slips, reading postal addresses, extracting information from cheques, data entry, applications for credit cards, health insurance, loans, tax forms etc. are application areas of digital document processing. This paper gives an overview of research work carried out for recognition of hand written English letters. In Hand written text there is no constraint on the writing style. Hand written letters are difficult to recognize due to diverse human handwriting style, variation in angle, size and shape of letters. Various approaches of hand written character recognition are discussed here along with their performance. Fig 1.Major Steps of an OCR System Index Terms— Offline Hand written Character Recognition, Pre-Processing, Feature Extraction, Classification, Post Processing. I. INTRODUCTION Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the most fascinating and challenging areas of pattern recognition with various practical applications. It can contribute immensely to the advancement of an automation process and can improve the interface between man and machine. It is the mechanism to convert machine printed...
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...Should schools keep cursive or should it die? Cursive writing improves brain developments! Keeping cursive writing preserves the history of cursive. But if you want cursive to die then their is a down side. Schools should keep cursive because it helps brain memory and participation. Cursive is a long-held cultural tradition in this country and should continue to be taught. Jimmy Bryant said,“We need to teach cursive to school children to preserve that history.” Cursive writing can help kids in school and when they are in public. The reason for this is because if they go to sign a paper or something and it has to be cursive it would take hours to do. We need cursive in schools. Also, Jimmy Bryant said,”As an archivist, I see many beautiful letters that were written in Cursive.” Therefore, I think myself that cursive writing is more readable sometimes than regular print. Finally, Jimmy Bryant likes cursive (so do I) writing better than print. He wants cursive to stay!...
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...Should students be taught cursive? This topic has been a big debate in some schools. A reason why students shouldn’t be taught is that it could be really difficult for some teachers and adults trying to teach it. A reason we should teach cursive is that it is very important not only in classrooms, but in the real world because you have to sign your name on checks and other things. Cursive writing has been taught for many years and it is a tradition in this country. Jimmy Bryant said that it should not be taught for fun, but for the sake of our country. Jimmy Bryant also said that we need to teach cursive to students to preserve this history. Many of the letters we use in cursive are at least 50 years old! Cursive writing being taught will...
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...The rapid changes in technology over the last 75 years have created enormous opportunities for education. While some technologies such as the computer were adopted early on, a reluctance to embrace change coupled with a lack of funding has resulted in a continuing dependence on chalkboards and other anachronistic technologies. The extent to which schools adopt new technologies, not surprisingly, often depends on how well they’re funded. It isn’t uncommon for schools that are separated by very little physical distance to be at opposite ends of the technology gap. Many folks familiar with this scenario understand the inherent lack of fairness in the disparate funding of schools. What many people don’t understand however is that it also threatens the uniquely American ideals of democracy and equality. One of the bedrocks of our democracy is the idea that we’re governed by the electoral choices of a well-informed citizenry. Having equal access to a decent education is the assumption that underlies this premise. But the ways in which rapid advances in technology are adopted have both positive and negative implications for schools and for broader society in general. Preparing For The Workforce One of the most positive results of schools embracing new technologies is found when low-income students gain skills they otherwise wouldn’t. The ability to type, use email and execute basic computer functions like Word and Excel are imperative in today’s workforce. When students who...
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...of their fine motor time on paper and pencil activities. The addition of handwritten components to many state standardized assessments and of a handwritten essay to the College Board SAT in 2005 further emphasize the importance of handwriting. Furthermore, good handwriting is important long after graduation. In Script and Scribble (2009), Florey writes in reference to handwritten job applications, “Like it or not, even in our machine-driven world, people still judge you by your handwriting.” Research literature extensively documents the consequences of poor handwriting on early literacy and academic performance. Children who experience difficulty mastering this skill [handwriting] may avoid writing and decide that they cannot write, leading to arrested writing development (Graham, Harris and Fink, 2000). Handwriting is critical to the production of creative and well- written text (Graham & Harris, 2005) affecting both fluency and the quality of the composition. Illegible handwriting also has secondary effects on school achievement and self-esteem (Engel-Yeger, Nagakur - Yanuv & Rosenblum, 2009; Malloy- Miller, Polatajko & Anstett, 1995). Handwriting instruction must adhere to developmental principles to ensure...
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...media as a whole has it positives and negatives. In some ways it is good for us that it has come around, to enumerate on that we have allowed service members to stay in contact with their family’s without having to rely on letters from home, in comparison, it has allowed criminals more chances to steal your identity. We have let modern electronic commutations come to dominate in our lives. To put it differently we have let the old-fashioned methods of writing die out, such as writing in cursive, writing letters. With are modern electronics communications systems, we have no way for them to be sure that they will be resilient and will hold are messaged for a long time. To enumerate on this it is simply a fact that electronics cannot last forever no matter how much we hope they will. they simply cannot last the test of time. Social media and electronic communications it is important to realize that it is simply not sustainable and we will need to resort to the dying art of writing letters and writing in cursive o other styles of writing. In the same manner that social media has had a positive impact it likewise had a negative impact. One of the ways it has had a negative impact is that it has allowed people who have evil intent and have ill intent to go through a person Facebook page. And to gather information to the point that they are able to steal someone identity, and to compromise there accounts, simply due to the fact that we are lazy and we post willy nilly without regards...
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...Instead I had tedious English exercises that were repeated over and over again. Essay writing or composition as it was called started at elementary school level until I graduated high school. Cursive writing was not something I enjoyed, but I had no choice but to give it my best. I loved going to the library; reading not only enhances my knowledge but relaxes me as well. I couldn’t read enough! My only regret is that nowadays time does not allow me to read as often as I want to. The numerous debate competitions taught me how to speak clearly when trying to express a point. During that time I did not know that this was going to help me when it came to job interviews .Exams rarely had multiple choices and there was no study guide. Preparing for tests involved a lot of reading and writing, which I have learned to appreciate. I do not mind being spoon fed with a study guide when I have exams, but just in case one is not available I will certainly not get a panic...
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...Handwriting Without Tears Writing is something that can start up the brain like nothing else, even in this great time of e-mails, texts and tweet. To write in cursive is basically now a gift because of how much we use our electronics. Cursive handwriting can start up the brain between the left and right sides, something absent from printing and typing. The College Board found that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion of the test scored higher than those who printed. As a result, writing makes you very smart. A few years ago, the College Board found that students who wrote, in cursive for the essay size of the test scored bit higher than those who wrote, which experts think is because the speed of writing in cursive allowed...
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...tell you, writing is a critical skill in daily life. Whether you’re writing a business email or a text message, it’s important to understand the fundamentals of English. As writers, we all have our strengths, weaknesses, and goals. Nobody is perfect, and that’s okay. English is one of the hardest languages in the world, after all. I think I’ve always been good at allowing my voice to flow in the essays I write. It’s a very tricky skill, but after years of writing for different classes, It’s a skill that kind of develops on its own. The different between an okay essay and a great essay is being able to hear and understand the voice of the writer who wrote that essay. If you allow your voice to come through,...
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...A ∑ This eBook is provided by www.PlentyofeBooks.net E= mc 2 Plenty of eBooks is a blog with an aim of helping people, especially students, who cannot afford to buy some costly books from the market. For more Free eBooks and educational material visit www.PlentyofeBooks.net Uploaded By Bhavesh Pamecha (samsexy98) 1 Handwriting Analysis The CompZete Basic Book NEW PAGE BOOKS A division of The Career Press, Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ Copyright 0 1980 by Karen Amend and Mary S . Ruiz All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. HANDWRITING ANALYSIS ISBN 0-87877-050-X Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-fiee I-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201-848-0310) to order using VISA or MasterCard, or for fbrther information on books fiom Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 The author of this book does not dispense medical advice nor prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information.of a general...
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...I failed to include a detailed response on how I will improve my academic writing this semester in my academic writing improvement plan. When reading the feedback I discovered how my writing was limited and how I was not providing adequate information, I decided to use this feedback from my tutor and progress through the semester on improving my paragraph structure and apposite information. This semester I have edited my writing multiple times and this has allowed me to discover mishaps that I turned s blind eye to. In comparison to the feedback I received on the second assessment, it was evident that my writing had improved quite a lot and was of a higher standard. . I use a computer daily in formal and informal ways. At home I use it...
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...A pen (Latin penna, feather) is a writing implement used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib dipped in the ink. Ruling pens allow precise adjustment of line width, and still find a few specialized uses, but technical pens such as the Rapidograph are more commonly used. Modern types also include ballpoint, rollerball, fountain, and felt or ceramic tip pens.[1] Contents | The main modern types of pens can be categorized by the kind of writing tip or point: A mark made on paper with a rollerball pen, and the tip of that pen * A ballpoint pen dispenses viscous oil-based ink by rolling a small hard sphere, usually 0.7–1.2 mm and made of brass, steel or tungsten carbide.[2] The ink dries almost immediately on contact with paper. The ballpoint pen is usually reliable and inexpensive.[citation needed] It has replaced the fountain pen as the most common tool for everyday writing. * A fountain pen uses water-based liquid ink delivered through a nib. The ink flows from a reservoir through a "feed" to the nib, then through the nib, due to capillary action and gravity. The nib has no moving parts and delivers ink through a thin slit to the writing surface. A fountain pen reservoir can be refillable or disposable, this disposable type being an ink cartridge. A pen with a refillable reservoir may have a mechanism, such as a piston, to draw ink from a bottle through the nib, or it may...
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