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
Analysis by comparison and measurements.
Graphometry
The art of determining character disposition and amplitude of a person from the study of handwriting.
Graphology
It also means the scientific study and analysis of handwriting, especially with reference to forgeries and questioned documents.
Graphology
Any disconnected style of writing in which each letter is written separately.
Handlettering
Handlettering is also called?
Hand printing
It means wrong hand writing
Left-Handed writing
The amount of space left between letters.
Letter space
Letter space referred to as?
Line space
Movement of the baseline. May slant up, down, or straight across the page.
Line direction
A disconnected form of script or semi script writing.
Manuscript writing
This type of writings is taught in young children in elementary schools as the first step in learning to write.
Manuscript writing
The amount of space left around the writing on all four sides.
Margins
Any study or examination which is made with the microscope in other to discover minute details.
Microscopic examination
It is an important element in handwriting.
Movement
Any specimen of writing executed normally without any attempt to control or alter its identifying habits and its usual quality or execution.
Natural writing
These are normal or usual deviations found between repeated specimens of any individual handwriting.
Natural variation
A creative combination of printing and cursive writing
Printscript
The relation between the tall and the short letter is reffered as to the ratio of writing
Proportion or Ratio
It is used in describing handwriting to refer to any identifying factor thstcis related to the writing movement itselt
Quality
The element of the writing movement which is marked by regular or periodic recurrences.
Rhythm
It may be classified as smooth, intermittent, or jerky in its quality.
Rhythm
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
Any characteristics of handwriting that is sufficiently uncommon and well fixed to serve as a fundamental point in the identification.
Significant writing habit
Eliminating extra or superfluous strokes from the copybook model.
Simplification
May refer to the overall size of the writing or the proportions between zones.
Size
The angle or inclination of the axis of the letters relative to the baseline.
Slope or slant
What are the three classes of slant?
*slant to the left
*slant to the right
*vertical slant
The act or process of changing handwriting.
Variation
Any writing executed with the opposite hand that normally used.
Wrong-handed writing
A curve formed inside the top curve of loop as in small letters h, m, n, and p.
Arc
It is the top portion of a letter or upper loop.
Ascender
Is the ruled or imaginary line upon which the writing rest.
Baseline
Preliminary embellished initial stroke which usually occurs in capital letters.
Beaded
Is the rudimentary initial upstroke of a letter.
Beard
The beginning and ending stroke of a letter. (Without hesitation)
Blunt
The main portion of the letter, minus the initial of strokes, terminal strokes and the diacritic of any.
Body
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
It means a bad writing.
Cacography
It means the art of beautiful writing.
Calligraphy
It is the lower portion of a letter.
Descender
Are letters having no ascending loop or stem or descending loop or stem.
Linear letter
An element added to complete a certain letter, either a cross bar or a dot.
Diacritic
A small loop or curved formed inside the letters.
Eye/Eyelet/Eyeloop
The small loop form by stroke that extend in divergent direction as in small letters
Eye/Eyelet/Eyeloop
Lower part which rest on the base line.
Foot
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
It is a minute curve or ankle which often occurs at the end of the terminal strokes.
Hook
The rounded outside of the top of the bend stroke or curve in small letter
Hump/Shoulder
The extra deposit of ink in the initial and terminal stroke due to the slow withdrawal of the pen from the paper.
Knob
A oblong curve such as found on the small letter f, g, l.
Loop
Term meaning a capital letter
Majuscule
Term meaning small letter
Minuscule
Retouching or going back over a defective portion of a written stroke.
Patching
An interruption in a stroke caused by removing the writing instrument from the paper.
Pen lift
Any part of a stroke which is super imposed upon the original stroke.
Retrace/Retracing
Any stroke which goes back over another writing stroke.
Retrace/Retracing
A short initial or terminal stroke
Spur
Any major long downward stroke of a letter.
Staff
The upright long downward stroke that is the trunk or stalk, normally seen in capital letters
Stem or Shank
Any short stroke, which usually occurs at the top of the letters
Tick/Hitch
A writing weakness portrayed by irregular shaky strokes.
Tremor
The upstroke of a looping ascender
Whirl
The upstroke of a looping ascender
Whirl
Muscles that decrease the angle between bones on the side of the joint.
Flexor muscles
This refers to the symmetry of an individual letters.
Proportion
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
It is the distance of a letter in a word or of words inba sentence.
Lateral spacing
It is the thickness, strength, and flow of the letters. Some factors are if the letters are flowing, shaky, or very thick.
Line quality
It is the text on the line, above the line, or below the line.
Alignment
