摘要:With digitization, our modes of writing change and we go from writing by putting pen topaper, to typing on a variety of screens.In educational as well as in leisurely settings,writing by hand is increasingly marginalized, and may in a foreseeable future beabandoned altogether.Summarizing some of the research comparing handwriting andtypewriting, this article aims to shed light on some salient features handwriting andkeyboard writing, and to discuss what may be the implications of the ongoing marginalizingor even abandonment of handwriting — in a short- and long-term perspective.