The Decline of the Written Word

2020-11-12T16:46:19-05:00

May 11, 2018 By: Jennifer Foster I was surprised to learn-only just recently-that students are no longer learning to "write" in school. With computers and laptops in school, printing is about as far as the pen goes. Having completed my first post secondary degree on a typewriter-and the second on a computer in a bank of machines located in a dusty basement of the university-it made me pause to think about a world in without writing utensils. Is this necessarily a bad thing? In the case of wills, maybe not. Codicils were pages attached to a will that set out revised [...]