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[quote=Anonymous]Writing in cursive is important especially for boys who incidentally seemed to be the most reluctant to do so. Many children do not write their letters - they draw them. There's a difference. Writing is a flow of letters to create words, sentences and thoughts.  Writing is just a process and a mechanism to express one's thoughts.

Many children who refuse to write in cursive do so because they view the creation of their letters as disconnected art and not as a continuous stream of communication. When they print they lift their pen or pencil off the page and then they must find the next place to begin again. This process of writing each letter as its own discreet form delays the thought process of completing the word, sentence, paragraph, and overall message the person is attempting to convey via their text.

It is more important to write perhaps less neatly in cursive and to complete one's thoughts and the assignment than to print neatly, but to only complete half of the assignment.

By writing in cursive the pen remains on the paper and the child does not have to continuously relocate the place to begin writing again.

For some the senecio I've described may not apply, but for those where it is applicable it can make an enormous difference. [/quote]

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