From Tony Williams
I can confirm from personal experience that “typing rather than writing by hand may alter the way we think”, as your recent article suggests.
Twenty years ago I took an exam in which three essays had to be written. In my job I used a word processor daily, and I had become used to typing a rough draft, then going back and editing it until I was satisfied.
In a written exam this isn’t possible, so I had to relearn the discipline of first working out the structure of each essay, then thinking through each paragraph before I started to write.
This wasn’t easy, and I needed to practise. I also discovered that my writing hand needed physical training; at first, it suffered from cramp after writing one page.
High Peak, Derbyshire, UK
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