As technology has advanced and the internet has grown to become an integral part of our everyday lives, there is now a much heavier reliance on typing. As such, some have argued that handwriting has become obsolete and should be removed from the school curriculum. Personally, I strongly disagree on both counts and feel that it is a skill that ought to be kept alive. Despite the ubiquity of keyboards nowadays, handwriting still plays an important role. Above all, writing by hand helps the learning process. Most university students would know that when typing notes in a lecture, or reviewing, it can be extremely difficult to recall that information later, whereas writing by hand has the opposite effect. In fact, it has been proven that taking notes and rewriting for review significantly boosts memory and retrieval of important information. In other words, if students relied only on typing, their learning comprehension would suffer. Clearly, although typing may often be ...