MA.Ed. Thesis
The heart of any academic essay is persuasion, and the voice of the argument plays a vital role in this. To persuade, one must set the stage, provide a context, and decide how to reveal one`s evidence. But clarity is always a virtue. The thesis below, my M.A.Ed. dissertation I wrote for nine months in 2016, poses the question “Do we need cursive writing?” Although there is a considerable resilience around the argument the point is not lost in the welter of specifics. I do not think that there is a blueprint for a successful essay; the best ones show us a focused mind making sense of some manageable aspect of the world, a mind where insightfulness, reason, and clarity are joined. Given the demands of the assignment and the discipline this thesis required a rigorous, good faith effort from me to establish originality—the very endeavor that will further guide me to complete my doctoral dissertation.