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January 19, 2005 Can you think better when you're typing? In today's New York Times, there's an Education article talking about the demise of proper cursive handwriting among high-schoolers. Computers have drastically reduced the amount a student writes by hand, so much that the skill, "like an unused muscle", is pretty much dead by your senior year. But there's an interesting question buried in this piece: What is the cognitive effect of handwriting versus typing? According to one researcher, kids who were bad at handwriting did worse in tests -- not because they were stupid, but because the mere act of enforced handwriting chewed up too much processing power, leaving them little left over to focus on the intellectual task: Professor Graham's study of elementary school pupils indicated a link between their difficulty in handwriting and weaknesses in the grammar and content of their compositions. One reason, quite simply, is that a brain struggling to make a hand form letters does not devote enough attention to more advanced tasks.
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January 19, 2005 Can you think better when you're typing? In today's New York Times, there's an Education article talking about the demise of proper cursive handwriting among high-schoolers. Computers have drastically reduced the amount a student writes by hand, so much that the skill, "like an unused muscle", is pretty much dead by your senior year. But there's an interesting question buried in this piece: What is the cognitive effect of handwriting versus typing? According to one researcher, kids who were bad at handwriting did worse in tests -- not because they were stupid, but because the mere act of enforced handwriting chewed up too much processing power, leaving them little left over to focus on the intellectual task: Professor Graham's study of elementary school pupils indicated a link between their difficulty in handwriting and weaknesses in the grammar and content of their compositions. One reason, quite simply, is that a brain struggling to make a hand form letters does not devote enough attention to more advanced tasks.
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January 19, 2005 Can you think better when you're typing? In today's New York Times, there's an Education article talking about the demise of proper cursive handwriting among high-schoolers. Computers have drastically reduced the amount a student writes by hand, so much that the skill, "like an unused muscle", is pretty much dead by your senior year. But there's an interesting question buried in this piece: What is the cognitive effect of handwriting versus typing? According to one researcher, kids who were bad at handwriting did worse in tests -- not because they were stupid, but because the mere act of enforced handwriting chewed up too much processing power, leaving them little left over to focus on the intellectual task: Professor Graham's study of elementary school pupils indicated a link between their difficulty in handwriting and weaknesses in the grammar and content of their compositions. One reason, quite simply, is that a brain struggling to make a hand form letters does not devote enough attention to more advanced tasks.
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23 Jan 05
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When I'm thinking about the logical connections between different parts of my argument, for example, I'll draw big swooping arrows connecting points together -- something that can't be done easily in a word processor. In a word processor, however, I'm able to use the classic DJ-style writing technique -- cranking out chunks of text and remixing them via cut-and-paste.
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22 Jan 05
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21 Jan 05
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kris wicksInteresting comparison between writing and typing. Holds somewhat true, I think. I'm much better at writing my first drafts by hand.
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