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Though it may seem surprising, today, children still prefer writing their longer essays and other texts using a pen rather than a keyboard. And, apparently, they are good at it too. A new scientific study has revealed that they write both better and faster when they do not use a keyboard. The investigation was conducted on second-, fourth- and sixth-grade children, some of whom had handwriting disabilities. All of them performed better at writing essays, sentences, or even the alphabet, when using a pen.“Children consistently did better writing with a pen when they wrote essays. They wrote more and they wrote faster,” University of Washington Professor of Educational Psychology Virginia Berninger, the leader of the new study, says. The expert usually studies normal writing development and writing disabilities. She admits, however, that it came a lot easier for children to write the alphabet using the keyboard, but that results when it came to sentences were mixed. The d!
ifferences between the two means of writing became obvious when the small ones got to compose their essays.For all three grade levels, the children who used pens, regardless of whether they had handwriting disabilities or not, produced longer essays and composed them at a faster pace than those who used ke...
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