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Survey and Synopsis Cursive Writing

1) The author conducted a survey on opinions about cursive writing being taught in schools and received responses from doctors, nurses, secretaries, teammates and friends. 2) The results showed that more people had used cursive writing recently than thought a typing class should replace cursive, but some felt cursive was outdated. 3) The author realized their survey questions could be improved and plans to do additional research on school policies, laws and different perspectives regarding cursive writing.

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Survey and Synopsis Cursive Writing

1) The author conducted a survey on opinions about cursive writing being taught in schools and received responses from doctors, nurses, secretaries, teammates and friends. 2) The results showed that more people had used cursive writing recently than thought a typing class should replace cursive, but some felt cursive was outdated. 3) The author realized their survey questions could be improved and plans to do additional research on school policies, laws and different perspectives regarding cursive writing.

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Survey and Synopsis

Cynthia Wolf

University of Northern Iowa


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Starting out with my survey, I knew that I had a good audience to give it to. My mother

works at a dentist, so I was given different responses from doctors, nurses, and secretaries. I also

sent it to my teammates and close friends, for a better range in age. I felt good about my

responses being from both professionals and nonprofessionals. I was surprised how many people

said that cursive is not useful and isn’t important anymore, but they also said that they have used

cursive within the last week or month. The results show that 13 people said that a typing class

should be in place of a cursive writing class, but 20 people said that they have used cursive

writing within the last week and another 9 said that they’ve used it within the last month. I was

also surprised that 4 people claimed to have learning disabilities, because only about 10% of

people do have a learning disability, and I had about 12% in my small selection of people.

Another thing that surprised me was that 23 people said that it was concerning that children

cannot read historical documents, but only 21 people said that they would teach their kids

cursive writing if the schools didn’t teach it. This says that some people can be concerned about

something, but won’t do anything about it.

While many either approved or disapproved with keeping cursive writing in schools,

there was a lot of grey spots about how it could just be an extracurricular class, or not required. I

wanted to include a question about the past and future, so I chose to have people pick cursive

writing or typing. Since we are in such a different time than when cursive was made mandatory,

typing is such an easier choice because of the technology based economy that we are in. So when

more than 18 people said that cursive was not needed, outdated, and not useful, it makes me

waver on where I stand with my topic. They made arguments about how historical documents

have been translated and can be found online if they need to look at them, if they even needed to
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be looked at at all. These could also be the weaknesses I need to acknowledge to better improve

my choice. I think what really helped me to stay positive about my topic was that 29 out of 34

people said that they have used cursive writing at least within the last month. This shows me that

the art is not all lost.

If I would send out another survey, I would change the way I worded a few questions.

For example, question number 6, should a typing class be required in place of a cursive writing

class, I would instead ask two separate questions, should a typing class be required, and should a

cursive writing class be required. I think this will help to get a more clear answer on people’s

opinions about cursive writing instead of comparing it to typing, which most people use every

day. I also think that my 5th question was only given to people who answered what learning

disabilities they had. I messed up on the sectioning for my survey, so I would fix that as well. For

my question 7 about what age children should learn cursive writing, I feel like I should have

made it a multiple choice answer, because after so many responses, the answers were getting

hard to read before I transferred the results to the spreadsheet.

Most might think that the question about learning disabilities is irrelevant, but I would

leave it the same. Cursive writing has been proven to help children with learning disabilities, so

by asking the question I can see if those people prefer cursive writing because of them. The

results showed that 3 out of the 4 think that cursive should be required in schools. I also would

keep the question about what people use cursive writing for. I got answers that I wouldn’t think

about myself like, applications, in professional situations, doctor’s notes, penpals, and more.
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I feel like I got some information that will be very useful to me, but I will still need to

research more about current topics. I will need to dig further into school systems, laws, and

different points of view to help guide me to all of the answers that I am seeking.

Survey questions:
1. Consent statement
2. What is your age?
3. Do you have children?
a. How many children do you have?
4. Do you have a learning disability(ies)?
a. What learning disability(ies)?
5. Do you think cursive writing should be required in schools? Why or why not?
6. Should a typing class be required in place of a cursive writing class? Why or why not?
7. At what age do you think children should learn cursive writing?
8. Why do you think cursive writing was taken out of schools?
9. When was the last time you used cursive writing?
10. What are some reasons you would use cursive writing?
11. If your child was not taught cursive writing in school, is it important enough that you
would teach it at home?
12. Does it concern you that most of our historical documents, such as the Declaration of
Independence, are written in cursive, but your child cannot read them? Why or why not?

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