Who invented handwriting assignments and do you like handwriting assignments?

This vacation, our kids had to do three handwriting assignments, one for National Day, one for Mid-Autumn Festival, and one for water conservation. Mind you, this vacation is only eight days long, and that's just the handwriting assignments.

So I wondered, when did students start having this assignment, and who invented it?

Online Baidu, naturally, there are people as curious as I am, there is an answer that this is a Russian invention, but searched for other information, and there is no evidence to support this claim, and can not be said that he is the one who put this activity, transformed into a student's homework.

So, in the spirit of breaking the mold (and watching the fun), I continued my search.

The earliest recorded reference to "handwriting" in a writing research book was in 1988, and it was suggested by the Teachers' Writing Research Association (TRRA), so we can probably tell that handwriting at this time was used as an exercise in writing, and it was genuine handwriting, - for it is true that the paper is copied by hand.

The second time it appeared, in 1990, was a "handwriting contest" organized by the **** Youth League, which stated, "Handwriting is a newspaper run by the students themselves, and not a newspaper to be copied."

This is when the handbills really connected with the students. However, at this time the handbill, which was an activity in nature and not promoted, could also be viewed as a chalkboard paper done independently by the students.

Surveyed the people around, and it is also true that some people in school, have done similar assignments, but the number of times is very small, are in the summer or winter vacation to do a copy, and there is no clear concept of handwritten newspaper, that is, in the holidays to do a tabloid themselves. It could be creative or excerpted.

But also from the 90s, the spark of handwriting, little by little, began to develop, promote, and gradually became what it is today.

Nowadays, handwriting is a good form of activity in the second classroom, which is quite plastic and free. Handbill is also a mass propaganda tool, which is equivalent to a scaled-down blackboard newspaper. (From Baidu Encyclopedia)

It is no longer confined to summer and winter vacations, but has taken on a new vitality, and the most frequently applied, is the theme handbill. The festivals to do handbills, the beginning of the school vacation to do handbills, and even listened to a lecture, went out to do a trip, the same can be done handbills, handbills have become the most widely used one of the homework, you can almost say, "a word can come to a handbill".

To be reasonable, the handbill is really helpful to the growth of students, it involves the formation of manuscripts, editing, typesetting, illustration and writing skills training, which is a full attention, brain and hand with the creative process, is the cultural cultivation, the interest of life, the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the comprehensive embodiment and artistic cultivation. This is undoubtedly a wide world for a student to develop his or her individual talents.

But the reason why many students and even parents now "talk about handwriting", because this assignment, too often.

By itself, the difficulty of handwriting is extremely high, and if you are not careful, you will have to rewrite and redo it. Many students in this homework, to spend a lot of time, a few hours at a time, is also a normal phenomenon, some students, from elementary school to secondary school, almost never get rid of this homework, and is more and more difficult to do.

Moreover, this homework, often "time is tight task", the requirements are also very high, either the students themselves can not do, or finally the teacher is not satisfied, so, this homework gradually evolved, slowly in some groups of students, also became the parents of the homework, I think, I'm afraid that this is the homework for the most criticized place? I'm afraid that this is the most criticized part of the assignment.

When did you first get into handwriting, and do you find it difficult? How does it help students? Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts and suggestions.

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