Chapter 5 Flashcards
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It is the result of very complicated series of facts, being used as a whole, combination of certain forms of visible mental and muscular habits acquired by long continued painstaking effort.
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Handwriting
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Handwriting is also called?
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Visible speech
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Cursive came from the latin word?
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Cursus
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Cursive came from a latin word cursus meaning?
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Running
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Cursive is mostly used in?
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Calligraphy
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Connected writing in which one letter is joined to the next.
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Cursive
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Separated or printing writing
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Script
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Script also known as?
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Sprint writing or printing writing
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Letters are all in capital form.
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Block
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The block kinds of writing is common used in?
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Business letters
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Group of muscles that push up the pen to form the upward strokes.
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Extensor muscles
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Group of muscles which push the pen to form the downward strokes.
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Flexor muscles
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What are the four group of muscles employed in writing?
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Fingers, wrist, elbow and shoulder
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Kind of movement where the thumb, the first, second and slightly the third fingers are in actual motion.
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Finger movement
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Kind of movement in writing employed in children and illiterate.
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Finger movement
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Produced by the movement or action of the whole hand with the wrist as the center of attraction.
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Hand movement
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The movement of the shoulder, hand and arm with support of the table.
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Forearm movement
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Action of the entire arm without resting
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Whole forearm movement
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Refers to the shape or design of the individual letters
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Form
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It is an angle or inclination of the axis of the letters relative to the baseline.
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Slope or slant
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The relation between the tall and short letters is refund to as the ratio of the writing.
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Ratio
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It is common practice among many writers to write their signatures with the initials and connected without pen.
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Connecting stroke
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It is an interruption in a stroke caused by removing the pen from the paper.
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Pen lift
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Is a gap between strokes due to speed in writing and defective writing instrument
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Hiatus
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Is considered as a common characteristics when it conforms to the ordinary copy-book form.
Lateral spacing
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It is the widening of the ink strokes with increase pressure on the paper surface.
Shading
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Refers to the visible record in the written strokes of the basic movement and manner of holding the writing instrument.
Line quality
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Is the relation of the parts of the whole line of writing or line of individual letters in words or signature to the baseline.
Alignment
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It is the balanced quality of movements of the harmonious recurrence if stress or impulse.
Rhythm
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The act of intermittently forcing the pen against the paper surface, when the pen point has flexibility.
Pen emphasis
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Relationship between the pen point and the paper.
Pen position
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The place where the writer grasps the barrel of the pen and the angle at which he holds it.
Pen hold
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The average force with which the pen contacts the paper.
Pen pressure
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This refers to additional unnecessary strokes.
Rubric or Embellishment
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Is the relation of parts of the whole of writing or line of individual letters in words to the baseline.
Alignment
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Sharp, straight strokes that are made by stopping the pen and changing direction before continuing.
Angular forms
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Forms that look like arches rounded on the top and open at the bottom.
Arcade forms
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Any property or mark which distinguishes and in document examination commonly called to as the identifying details.
Characteristics
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The act of setting two or more items side by side to weigh their identifying qualities.
Comparison
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A writer may deliberately try to alter his usual writing habits in hopes of hiding his identity.
Disguised writing
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The movement of the pen towards the writer.
Downstroke
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A cup like connected form that is open at the top and rounded on the bottom.
Garland forms
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Gestalt is a german word meaning?
Complete or whole
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It is a german word meaning complete or whole.
Gestalt
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The study of handwriting based on the two fundamental strokes, the curve and the straight strokes.
Graphoanalysis
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Analysis by comparison and measurements.
Graphometry
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The art of determining character disposition and amplitude of a person from the study of handwriting.
Graphology
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It also means the scientific study and analysis of handwriting, especially with reference to forgeries and questioned documents.
Graphology
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Any disconnected style of writing in which each letter is written separately.
Handlettering
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Handlettering is also called?
Hand printing
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It means wrong hand writing
Left-Handed writing
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The amount of space left between letters.
Letter space
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Letter space referred to as?
Line space
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Movement of the baseline. May slant up, down, or straight across the page.
Line direction
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A disconnected form of script or semi script writing.
Manuscript writing
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This type of writings is taught in young children in elementary schools as the first step in learning to write.
Manuscript writing
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The amount of space left around the writing on all four sides.
Margins
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Any study or examination which is made with the microscope in other to discover minute details.
Microscopic examination
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It is an important element in handwriting.
Movement
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Any specimen of writing executed normally without any attempt to control or alter its identifying habits and its usual quality or execution.
Natural writing
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These are normal or usual deviations found between repeated specimens of any individual handwriting.
Natural variation
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A creative combination of printing and cursive writing
Printscript
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The relation between the tall and the short letter is reffered as to the ratio of writing
Proportion or Ratio
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It is used in describing handwriting to refer to any identifying factor thstcis related to the writing movement itselt
Quality
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The element of the writing movement which is marked by regular or periodic recurrences.
Rhythm
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It may be classified as smooth, intermittent, or jerky in its quality.
Rhythm
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Is the widening of the ink strokes due to the added pressure on a flexible pen point or to the use of a stub pen.
Shading
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Any characteristics of handwriting that is sufficiently uncommon and well fixed to serve as a fundamental point in the identification.
Significant writing habit
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Eliminating extra or superfluous strokes from the copybook model.
Simplification
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May refer to the overall size of the writing or the proportions between zones.
Size
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The angle or inclination of the axis of the letters relative to the baseline.
Slope or slant
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What are the three classes of slant?
*slant to the left
*slant to the right
*vertical slant
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The act or process of changing handwriting.
Variation
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Any writing executed with the opposite hand that normally used.
Wrong-handed writing
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A curve formed inside the top curve of loop as in small letters h, m, n, and p.
Arc
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It is the top portion of a letter or upper loop.
Ascender
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Is the ruled or imaginary line upon which the writing rest.
Baseline
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Preliminary embellished initial stroke which usually occurs in capital letters.
Beaded
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Is the rudimentary initial upstroke of a letter.
Beard
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The beginning and ending stroke of a letter. (Without hesitation)
Blunt
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The main portion of the letter, minus the initial of strokes, terminal strokes and the diacritic of any.
Body
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A loop made as a flourished which is added to the letters, the horizontal end loop stroke that are often used to complete a letter
Buckle or Buckleknot
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It means a bad writing.
Cacography
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It means the art of beautiful writing.
Calligraphy
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It is the lower portion of a letter.
Descender
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Are letters having no ascending loop or stem or descending loop or stem.
Linear letter
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An element added to complete a certain letter, either a cross bar or a dot.
Diacritic
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A small loop or curved formed inside the letters.
Eye/Eyelet/Eyeloop
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The small loop form by stroke that extend in divergent direction as in small letters
Eye/Eyelet/Eyeloop
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Lower part which rest on the base line.
Foot
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It is the irregular thickening of ink which is found when writing slows down or stop while the pen tske a stock of the position.
Hesitation
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It is a minute curve or ankle which often occurs at the end of the terminal strokes.
Hook
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The rounded outside of the top of the bend stroke or curve in small letter
Hump/Shoulder
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The extra deposit of ink in the initial and terminal stroke due to the slow withdrawal of the pen from the paper.
Knob
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A oblong curve such as found on the small letter f, g, l.
Loop
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Term meaning a capital letter
Majuscule
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Term meaning small letter
Minuscule
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Retouching or going back over a defective portion of a written stroke.
Patching
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An interruption in a stroke caused by removing the writing instrument from the paper.
Pen lift
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Any part of a stroke which is super imposed upon the original stroke.
Retrace/Retracing
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Any stroke which goes back over another writing stroke.
Retrace/Retracing
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A short initial or terminal stroke
Spur
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Any major long downward stroke of a letter.
Staff
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The upright long downward stroke that is the trunk or stalk, normally seen in capital letters
Stem or Shank
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Any short stroke, which usually occurs at the top of the letters
Tick/Hitch
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A writing weakness portrayed by irregular shaky strokes.
Tremor
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The upstroke of a looping ascender
Whirl
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The upstroke of a looping ascender
Whirl
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Muscles that decrease the angle between bones on the side of the joint.
Flexor muscles
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This refers to the symmetry of an individual letters.
Proportion
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Are a composition or correlation of the height of one letter or letter segment to another letter, usually with the same word or signature.
Ratio
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It is the distance of a letter in a word or of words inba sentence.
Lateral spacing
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It is the thickness, strength, and flow of the letters. Some factors are if the letters are flowing, shaky, or very thick.
Line quality
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It is the text on the line, above the line, or below the line.
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