Friday, May 15, 2020
Rhetorical Analysis Of Handwriting Doesn t Matter
Rhetorical Analysis: Handwriting Just Doesnââ¬â¢t Matter In recent years, the rushing tide of typing has overwhelmed the once necessary skill of handwriting. As the days pass by computers and other 21st century electronics are becoming more and more a part human lives. Gone are the constant needs for pen and paper, often times all that is needed for notetaking is a laptop and working fingers. A recent article published by Anne Trubek titled ââ¬Å"Handwriting Just Doesnââ¬â¢t Matterâ⬠analyzes the importance of handwriting in the computerized world that is lived in today, as well as through a discussion on the teaching of cursive and other handwriting exercises in schools. Using a mix of pathos, logos, and minor amounts of ethos, Trubek is able to comprehensively convince her audience that handwriting is not as important or useful a skill as it used to be. Trubek wishes to provide her audience with a convincing argument that shows how handwriting in this time is inferior to typing on computers. In other words, her primary purpose is to illustrate the idea of focusing on typing automaticity (the ability to type without looking at keys) in schools over handwriting automaticity (the ability to write without conscious effort). This is seen when Trubek explains how if ââ¬Å"â⬠¦the goal of public education is to prepare students to become successful, employable adults, typing is inarguably more useful than handwriting.â⬠(Trubek, 2016, para. 4) Trubek argues that if public schools are working
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