[lbo-talk] The death of cursive....

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Nov 26 06:01:25 PST 2012


Gar Lipow
> For me, typing is thinking. I have a minor neurological disorder that
> affects my ability to handwrite. I can never write beautifully, but
> if I concentrate hard I can PRINT legibly. My cursive was never
> legible. The problem even with printing for me is that it takes so
> much effort for me to print that I can't really compose

This is the first and so far only post that has ever appeared on lbo in reference to writing that makes even minimal sense in the light of my decades of reading student papers AND talking, in my office, to the students who wrote those papers.

Carrol



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