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What Is Cursive Writing-HISTORY AND TYPES OF CURSIVE WRITING

Cursive writing is a style of writing where letters are joined together in a flowing script. It originated from Roman cursive script in the 600s and was standardized by Charlemagne in the late 8th century as Carolingian minuscule. Cursive writing allows for faster writing and was used widely until the rise of technologies that allow for typing. While its use has declined with new technologies, cursive is still taught in many schools and considered important for developing motor skills and handwriting ability. Efforts are made to preserve cursive writing as an art that could get lost if not passed to new generations.

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What Is Cursive Writing-HISTORY AND TYPES OF CURSIVE WRITING

Cursive writing is a style of writing where letters are joined together in a flowing script. It originated from Roman cursive script in the 600s and was standardized by Charlemagne in the late 8th century as Carolingian minuscule. Cursive writing allows for faster writing and was used widely until the rise of technologies that allow for typing. While its use has declined with new technologies, cursive is still taught in many schools and considered important for developing motor skills and handwriting ability. Efforts are made to preserve cursive writing as an art that could get lost if not passed to new generations.

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What is Cursive Writing?

Cursive writing is a style of writing generally written by joining the letters of a word together. It
is always looped and connected, which makes writing go quickly. Cursive also makes it look
more elegant and beautiful. While formal cursive is written only by joining letters, the casual
style of cursive writing uses both joining and pen lifts, meaning the writing instrument is
occasionally lifted while writing.

The term cursive is derived from the Latin term currere, which means "to run" or "to flow."
This style of writing is named "cursive" because of how the letters flow together and seem to run
into each other. This is especially helpful as it increases the speed of writing and one can write
without lifting the writing instrument, such as a pen or a pencil.

Cursive is used all over the world as a writing style for greeting cards, diplomas and
certificates, invitations, checks, legal documents, and even announcements. Contrary to
popular belief, cursive writing is used around the world and not just in the United States,
although with the advent of technology, electronic gadgets, and access to cheap printing, it
has lost some of its sheen.

In order to revive this losing art, National Handwriting Day was established in 1977 and is
celebrated on the 23rd of January every year to commemorate John Hancock's birthday, the
man who signed the Declaration of Independence of the United States

Just like paintings or any other


History of Cursive Writing art, cursive writing is an effort and need
to preserve in this modern days.
It is believed that back in the 600s, the Romans first used a form of writing mainly to
communicate and to keep stock of items of trade. This form of writing clearly showed the
cursive style flowing into one another. Emperor Charlemagne, the ruler at the time, appreciated
this form of neat, balanced script over its French and Lombardic counterparts. Additionally,
the quill, an important writing instrument of the olden times, was too fragile a tool to keep
lifting off the paper and touching it back again. Therefore, it worked best with a style requiring
minimal lifting of the quill off the page. Because of this, the period saw a rise in cursive writing.

After the Roman Empire fell, in order to preserve its history, monks throughout the Christian
world transcribed all the Christian texts, but there were minor differences in the cursive writing
styles owing to the different regions from which the monks came.
Although Emperor Charlemagne wanted one standard script in all the regions, it was not until six
years after his death in 820 CE that this style of cursive was fine-tuned under the leadership of
Alcuin of York (England), the monks at Aachen (Germany), and at the Abbey of St. Martin at
the end of the 8th century and became a standardized, predominant script. Called Carolingian
Miniscule, it has the following characteristics:

 Highly functional
(starting of grammars)
 Easy to read
 Separated words
 Inclusion of lower-case letters
 Contained punctuation

With the inclusion of punctuation, this time period marks the introduction to the formal study of
grammar and mechanics.

The Carolingian Minuscule style of writing was standardized around the 820 A.D.

The Carolingian Minuscule style of writing was standardized around the 820 A.D.
As the price of paper rose, people tried to fill in more words in the same space and that took on a
more crowded, stuffy look, called Gothic, that was not very popular. Therefore, another type of
beautiful cursive evolved, called Italic. At that time in history, it was assumed that if you had
beautiful handwriting, you were probably affluent in society. Expensive paper and private
tutelages from expert scribes to their disciples made cursive writing an exclusive and privileged
skill. In fact, the signature made in the italic style was a measure of affluence, aristocracy, and a
higher social status.

In the 1800s, an American bookkeeper by the name of Platt Rogers Spencer regularized a
method of cursive writing, a script known as the Spencerian Method. This style of writing was
taught in schools using a textbook and adopted by businesses.

Types of Cursive Writing


The following are the various types of cursive:
Ligature
Ligature is a type of cursive writing that connects the letters using lines. The main objective of
the ligature cursive style is not to lift the writing instrument while writing. (just connected, no
lifting of pen)

Looped Cursive
As the name suggests, this type of cursive depends heavily on looping the letters. The loop of
one terminating letter loops into another letter and continues henceforth.

Cursive Italic
Thanks to the 15th century Italian Renaissance, this style of cursive became popular. It is
derived from chancery cursive or the Italic hand. The letters denote a clear slant on the right with
looped and non-looped letters.

1.) Ligature
2.) Looped Cursive
3.) Cursive Italic
4.) Zaner-Bloser
List at least 10 benefits/importance of cursive writing
1.) Relative ease in introducing cursive penmanship to pre-schoolers
2.) Prevents reversals and confusion of letters
3.) Enhances spelling ability
4.) Develops internal control systems that can be used as tool for learning
5.) Potential for errors are diminished
6.) Improved reading skills
7.) Enforces the skills for patterns in reading and writing
8.) Prevents erratic spaces between letters and words
9.) Helps Left Handed Children
10.) Use as a tool to put thoughts on paper quickly and easily
List down at least 5 ways to improve cursive writing
1.) Start with the Cursive Alphabet.
2.) Lowercase Letters in Cursive.
3.) Uppercase in Cursive.
4.) Selecting a Cursive Font.
5.) Practice Regularly.

Explain each item objectively and comprehensively, at least in150 words


As a future teacher, why do you need to improve your cursive writing skills?
*
20 points
As a future teacher, it is important to master the cursive writing due to the fact that I will going
to teach it to my future pupils for instance teaching them the proper techniques in cursive and
what benefits they will gain. Additionally, cursive writing is a useful penmanship not only it
improves the motor skills of the pupils but also in writing a lesson plan can be helpful because
through cursive I can finish my lesson plan in no time. Cursive writing is not only good for speed
writing but also, to children with disability, it also make them smarter the pupils. As a teacher it
is my responsibility also to preserve the cursive writing by passing them to my pupils by
teaching them the correct way, well after all we are in the society filled with technologies where
you can see as young as 5 years old holding a phone typing things in online, so, just like
paintings or any other art, cursive writing is an effort and need to preserve in this modern days.
Why cursive writing is considered to be an important skill that ones need to be honed or
equipped with?
*
20 points
Learning cursive handwriting helps students develop their spelling abilities and helps them
identify words when they read them later. As typing doesn't need the same fine motor skills and
simultaneous activity, it doesn't have the same impact on the brain. Not only is cursive good for
speed of writing, but it also is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking,
language and working memory. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity
between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and typing. It is an
honored due the fact that it is rare to see people using cursive as a penmanship due to the
dramatic emergence of the technologies in the society where it feels like to be a chosen one to
preserve and protect such a wonderful art of penmanship. because cursive is not only a
penmanship but an effort and an art of a human being.
Why cursive writing still need to be developed amid the emergence of typing and encoding
devices in the society?
*
20 points
Due to the dramatic emergence of the technology in the society people tend type more in the
computer, phones, laptops, and other gadgets/devices/technologies are there all day, I mean we
cannot blame them because these have been part of our daily lives-into our daily routines. You
see, I can compare cursive to an art where cursive writing should be preserve and protected,
although, some people may not know that despite the convenience that the technology brought us
but have you ever thought of "what if these technologies/devices/gadgets that we had right now
will be gone in a glimpse of an eye" knowing it will be gone like forever, what will happen to
the humanity where we will be back in basic where we will going to write. This conclude,
therefore, Just like paintings or any other art, cursive writing is an effort and need to preserve in
this modern days.

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