We are Producing a Signatureless Generation

The ideas expressed in this article, Why the Debate Over Cursive is About more than Penmanship, hit me today.

I was reading a letter from the President of a national student organization. I looked at her signature and it reminded me of my social security card that I signed in third grade. 

The letters looked painstakingly designed with unnecessary loops and wobbles. I felt pity that this poor young lady didn't have a signature.

No signature. How can you not have a signature? I remember people who signed their name with an X when I was a waitress in a small farming community because they had never learned to write. But this is an entirely different issue.

It also brings to light an answer to one of my HUGE frustrations with students when composing their cover letters for internship and job searches. They do not sign the letter. It's progressively getting worse no matter how many times I tell them that even in an electronic copy have a PDF of your signature on file to insert above the typed name. Nope. They don't do it. Now I know it may be because they don't know how.

Let's just add this to the remedial crap we end up teaching instead of what University students should be learning. 

Sincerely, 



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