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Research Topics on: cursive

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Books on: cursive

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Journal Articles on: cursive

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Magazine Articles on: cursive

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Newspaper Articles on: cursive

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    Lost Art Ofpenmanship; Cursive Writing a Casualty of Technological Age
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 18, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Lost Art Ofpenmanship; Cursive Writing a Casualty of Technological...games and the rotary-dial phone, cursive writing may soon become a casualty...nationwide. Learning the loops of cursive writing might seem like a waste of...
     
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    New Ways of Teaching the Cursive Style Are Being Tried to End the Spate of Illegible Scrawling
    Newspaper article by Anne Veigle; The Washington Times, July 11, 2000
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    New ways of teaching the cursive style are being tried to end the spate...begin drawing the curves and loops of cursive script rather than the block print...Childrens movements flow more easily with cursive. I find kids love it. By the end...
     
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    Leave Cursive Instruction Alone
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 15, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Leave Cursive Instruction Alone. I found your article about teaching cursive writing to our youth in the public schools very interesting...found reading papers and assignments completed in cursive writing so much easier to grade. It was also true...
     
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    Is Cursive out? Not So Fast, Suburban Teachers Say
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 9, 2010
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    Teachers--Reports
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Is Cursive out? Not So Fast, Suburban Teachers Say...At the desk next to mine, Lynne Garings cursive-writing exercise boasted an unbroken...report card, "because no one can read your cursive handwriting." That I now have a job writing...
     
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    Leave Cursive Instruction Alone
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 15, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Leave Cursive Instruction Alone. I found your article about teaching cursive writing to our youth in the public schools very interesting...found reading papers and assignments completed in cursive writing so much easier to grade. It was also true...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: cursive

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    Calligraphy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...handwriting came into being very early. Cursive script was used for letters and records...width, and clear, sharp corners, and a cursive "running hand." The Japanese value...monumental letters. In the 12th cent. rounded cursive style was invented and spread throughout...
     
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    Islamic Art and Architecture
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...d. 940) of Baghdad who invented the six most prominent cursive scripts. Certain scripts were favored for specific uses...were held in highest esteem throughout Islam. The sloping cursive script most commonly used today, Nastaliq, was perfected...
     
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    Hieroglyphic
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...progress of hieroglyphic writing, because of the fundamental convenience of an alphabet . In the Middle Kingdom a developed cursive, the hieratic, was extensively used for private documents where writing speed was essential. In the last centuries b.c...
     
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    Shorthand
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...and natural, resembling those of ordinary script; need for lifting the pen was eliminated as much as possible, so that a cursive motion is used; there is no shading, but variation in length of line indicates variation in meaning. The outlines were scientifically...
     
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    Aldus Manutius
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...represented two to five letters in the width of one character. To save space in Latin texts he had a type designed after the Italian cursive script; it is said to be the script of Petrarch. This was the first italic type used in books (1501). Books produced by...
     

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