Putting Words Down On By Andrew Coyne Analysis

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In Putting Words Down on Paper the thesis Andrew Coyne is trying to prove is that writing longhand gives writers the ability to be more creative, appreciate and understand their thoughts better than if they were to type them up on a computer. Andrew Coyne explains how learning to write longhand is no longer required, and how it will soon be an ancient method of writing. He believes that since writing longhand allows you to use different parts of your brain because you are accessing the cognitive aspects since you are writing each letter it becomes more thoughtful , while typing is simply a “file retrieval” of the letters you want to use to spell a word. Andrew Coyne uses the example that when you are writing something down on paper you have