The Point of Handwriting
Perhaps this is why handwriting, even today, still has benefits. More than one study has suggested that writing by hand helps both retention and understanding. It is a question of pace and focus—of the fact that the mind simply cannot consciously recognize individual letters typed out at normal speed, but can when one writes. Maybe the limitations of the body carry some hidden benefit: that in marking out ideas at a pace slower than typing, there is some link between neural and muscle memory.
Read all of the essay by Navneet Alang.
[HT: Arts & Letters Daily]
2 comments:
How are our kids going to read important documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution? They are supposed to "believe" what the printed/typed stuff on the internet says? You know the stuff produced by our government, and other less trust-worthy political evangelists, as to what the cursively written founding documents actual words are.
Tom,
That's a very interesting observation.
Michael
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