Chapter 5 Flashcards
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.
Handwriting
Handwriting is also called?
Visible speech
Cursive came from the latin word?
Cursus
Cursive came from a latin word cursus meaning?
Running
Cursive is mostly used in?
Calligraphy
Connected writing in which one letter is joined to the next.
Cursive
Separated or printing writing
Script
Script also known as?
Sprint writing or printing writing
Letters are all in capital form.
Block
The block kinds of writing is common used in?
Business letters
Group of muscles that push up the pen to form the upward strokes.
Extensor muscles
Group of muscles which push the pen to form the downward strokes.
Flexor muscles
What are the four group of muscles employed in writing?
Fingers, wrist, elbow and shoulder
Kind of movement where the thumb, the first, second and slightly the third fingers are in actual motion.
Finger movement
Kind of movement in writing employed in children and illiterate.
Finger movement
Produced by the movement or action of the whole hand with the wrist as the center of attraction.
Hand movement
The movement of the shoulder, hand and arm with support of the table.
Forearm movement
Action of the entire arm without resting
Whole forearm movement
Refers to the shape or design of the individual letters
Form
It is an angle or inclination of the axis of the letters relative to the baseline.
Slope or slant
The relation between the tall and short letters is refund to as the ratio of the writing.
Ratio
It is common practice among many writers to write their signatures with the initials and connected without pen.
Connecting stroke
It is an interruption in a stroke caused by removing the pen from the paper.
Pen lift
Is a gap between strokes due to speed in writing and defective writing instrument
Hiatus
Is considered as a common characteristics when it conforms to the ordinary copy-book form.
Lateral spacing
It is the widening of the ink strokes with increase pressure on the paper surface.
Shading
Refers to the visible record in the written strokes of the basic movement and manner of holding the writing instrument.
Line quality
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
It is the balanced quality of movements of the harmonious recurrence if stress or impulse.
Rhythm
The act of intermittently forcing the pen against the paper surface, when the pen point has flexibility.
Pen emphasis
Relationship between the pen point and the paper.
Pen position
The place where the writer grasps the barrel of the pen and the angle at which he holds it.
Pen hold
The average force with which the pen contacts the paper.
Pen pressure
This refers to additional unnecessary strokes.
Rubric or Embellishment
Is the relation of parts of the whole of writing or line of individual letters in words to the baseline.
Alignment
Sharp, straight strokes that are made by stopping the pen and changing direction before continuing.
Angular forms
Forms that look like arches rounded on the top and open at the bottom.
Arcade forms
Any property or mark which distinguishes and in document examination commonly called to as the identifying details.
Characteristics
The act of setting two or more items side by side to weigh their identifying qualities.
Comparison
A writer may deliberately try to alter his usual writing habits in hopes of hiding his identity.
Disguised writing
The movement of the pen towards the writer.
Downstroke
A cup like connected form that is open at the top and rounded on the bottom.
Garland forms
Gestalt is a german word meaning?
Complete or whole
It is a german word meaning complete or whole.
Gestalt
The study of handwriting based on the two fundamental strokes, the curve and the straight strokes.
Graphoanalysis
