QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINATION Flashcards
It refers any material containing marks, signs or symbols visible, partially visible or invisible which furnish or convey information, meaning or message to a person.
DOCUMENT
The impressions left by the stylus were wedged shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform.
Cuneiform script
It was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in theAncient Near East.
Cuneiform script
The study of ancienthandwriting and the practice of deciphering and reading historical manuscripts.
A French monk, originated Latin Paleography in 1861, when he published De re diplomatic, a study of forms and official document.
Paleography
Is a type ofvisual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering.
Calligraphy
A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner”
Calligraphy
Imagescreated by removing part of a rocksurface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.
Petroglyphs
Neolithic man began written communication as long as 20,000 years ago when he graphically represented objects and ideas in drawings on cave walls known as Iconography.
Iconography
A formalwriting systemused by theancient Egyptiansthat contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Agraphicsymbolthat represents anideaor concept.
Ideogram/Ideograph
Refers to handwriting or images on the walls or surfaces of a public area, such as building, parks, toilets, and trains, etc..
Graffiti
” is applied inart historyto works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface.
Graffiti
is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings.
Graffiti
(1960-1988), American painter, whose work first appeared as graffiti on the streets and subways of New York City. He was the most successful of a number of so-called street artists, whose work crossed over into New York City’s gallery scene in the early 1980s. His works mix imagery from African, Caribbean, European, and popular art.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Any material which contains marks, symbols or signs, in which this components may either visible, partially visible or invisible.
Document
Any material or document in which some issue has been raised or that which is under scrutiny or a document which has “a doubtful origin”.
Questioned Document
Document in which the origin is known can be proven and can legally be used as sample to compare with other things is questioned
Standard Document
Standard specimen executed in the regular course of man’s activity or that which are executed on the day to day writing activity.
Collected/Procured –
– a Standard document which are executed upon request, they are prepare at one time
Requested/Dictated
Types of Standards
Collected/Procured
Requested/Dictated
Refers to the act of making a close and critical study of any document questioned, disputed, or attacked necessary to discover the facts about them.
Questioned Document Examination
Refers to any specimen of writing executed normally without any attempt to control or alter its identifying habits and its usual quality or execution.
Natural Writing
- The earliest form of material on which writing was place where the skin of animals called parchment or vellum.
Paper
was a form of vegetable varnish. The oldest type of ink was invented by the Chinese thousand years ago.
Ink
Paper - The earliest form of material on which writing was place where the skin of animals called
parchment or vellum.
The instrument used to form marks, or symbols on a paper. Paper and ink do not composed a document unless some symbols markings or writings are imprinted.
Writing Instrument
is the visible result of a very complicated series of acts, being as a whole or a combination of certain forms which are the very visible result of mental and muscular habits acquired by long continued painstaking effort.
Writing
Refers to factors relative to the motion of the pen such as, pressure, rhythm, pen lifting, etc.
Writing movement
- Is any disconnected style of writing or junction broken.
SCRIPT or MANUSCRIPT WRITING
- most parts are joined together by a junction connection.
CURSIVE or CONVENTIONAL WRITING
= is characterized by all capital or uppercase letters
BLOCK or PRINTED WRITING
KIND OF WRITING
Script or Manuscript Writing
Cursive or Conventional writing
Block or Printed Writing
Is a visible effect of bodily movement which is an almost unconscious expressions of fixed muscular habits, reacting from fixed mental impression of certain ideas associated with script form.
Handwriting
Refers to any repeated elements of once handwriting which serves as an identifying characteristics.
Writing Habits
– elements of one’s writing that are sufficiently unique and well fixed to serve as a strong basis of individuality.
Significant Writing Habits