Rhythm In Writing And Terminologies Flashcards
is a succession of connected, uniform strokes working in full coordination
Rhythm
This is manifested by clear-cut accentuated strokes which increase and decrease in which like perfect cones.
Rhythm in Handwriting
Pressure is always in a state of change moving from light to heavy or from heavy to light.
Rhythm in Handwriting
Characterized by a succession of awkward, independent, poorly directed and disconnected motions.
A. Lack of Rhythm
By studying the rhythm of the succession of strokes, one can determine if the writer normally and spontaneously or write with hesitation as if he is attempting to for another signature.
B. Importance of Rhythm
Determine the essential expression of the writing pattern. It is a mean indicator of the neuromuscular function.
C. Letter of Connections
Words are formed by connection letters to one another. Even letters are formed by the joining of the upward and downward strokes.
C. Letter of Connections
These types of connections are:
Arcade
Garland
Angular connective form
The threadlike connective form
A rounded strokes shaped like an arch. It is a slow mode of connection resulting from controlled movements.
- Arcade
Links the downward stroke to the upstrokes with a flowing curve swinging from left to right.
- Garland
It is an easy, effortless mode of connection, written with speed.
- Garland
When the downward strokes and upward strokes meet directly, angular connection is formed.
- Angular Connective form
This type of connection imposes a check on the continuity of movement which is characterized by an abrupt stop and start in each turning point.
- Angular Connective form
The joining of downward and upward strokes is slurred to a threadlike tracing or where rounded turns used at both top and bottom produce a double curve.
- The Threadlike Connective form
These forms appear both in the shaping of letters within the word.
- The Threadlike Connective form
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 directing before continuing
ANGULAR FORMS
Forms that look like arches rounded on the top and open at the bottom.
ARCADE
- Any property or mark which distinguishes and in document examination commonly called to as the identifying details”
CHARACTERISTICS
Side by side comparison collation as used in this text means the critical comparison on side by side examination.
COLLATION
The act of setting two or more items side by side to weigh their identifying qualities; it refers not only a visual but also the mental act in which the element of one item are related to the counterparts of the other.
COMPARISON
- A writer may deliberately “try to alter his usual writing habits” in the hopes of hiding his identity.
DISGUISED WRITING
- The movement of the pen towards the writer.
DOWNSTROKE
- The writer’s chosen “writing style”. The way the writing looks, whether it is copybook, elaborated, simplified or printed.
FORM
- A cup-like connected form that is open at the top and rounded on the bottom.
GARLAND FORMS
-The German word that means “complete or whole”. A good gestalt needs nothing added or taken away to make it “look right”.
GESTALT
- Also a school of handwriting analysis that looks at handwriting as a whole picture.
K. GESTALT
The study of handwriting based on the two fundamental strokes, the curve and the straight strokes.
GRAPHOANALYSIS
Analysis by “comparison and measurement.”
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: also called hand printing
O. HANDLETTERING
See ‘wrong hand writing”
LEFT-HANDED WRITING
-The amount of space left between letters.
LETTER SPACE
-Movement of the baseline. May slant up and down, or straight across the page.
LINE DIRECTION
- The overall character of the ink lines from the beginning to the ending strokes. There are two classes; Good line quality and Poor line quality.
LINE QUALITY
-The amount of space left between lines.
LINE SPACE
- A disconnected form of script or semi-script writing. This type of writing 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
- It embraces all the factors which are related to the motion of the writing instrument skill, speed freedom, hesitation, rhythm, emphasis, tremors and the like.
MOVEMENT
- Any specimen of writing executed normally without any attempt to control pr alter its identifying habits and its usual quality or execution.
NATURAL WRITING
- These are normal or usual deviation found between repeated specimens of any individuals handwriting.
Natural variation
- The act of intermittently forcing the pen against the paper surfaces.
PEN EMPHASIS
- When the pen-point has flexibility, this emphasis produces shading, but with more rigid writing points heavy point emphasis can occur in writing w/out any evidence of shading; the act intermittently forcing the pen against the paper with increase pressure.
AA. PEN EMPHASIS
- When the pen-point has flexibility, this emphasis produces shading, but with more rigid writing points heavy point emphasis can occur in writing w/out any evidence of shading; the act intermittently forcing the pen against the paper with increase pressure.
AA. PEN EMPHASIS
The place where the writer grasps the barrel of the pen and the angle at which he holds
PEN HOLD
Pen pressure as opposed to open emphasis deals with the usual of average force involved in the writing rather than the period increases
PEN HOLD
Relationship between the pen point and the papers
PEN POSITION
The average force with which the pen contacts the paper.
PEN PRESSURE
Pen pressure as opposed to pen emphasis deals with the usual of average force involved in the writing rather than the period increases.
PEN PRESSURE
- A creative “combination of printing and cursive writing”.
PRINTSCRIPT
- The relation between the tall and the short letter is referred to as to the ratio of writing.
PROPORTION OR RATIO
- A distinct particular character. Also “quality” is used in describing handwriting to refer any identifying factor that is related to the writing movement itself.
QUALITY
- The element of the writing movement which is marked by regular or periodic recurrences.
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 characteristic 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
- In any set there are relative degree ability or skill of a writers b proficiency
Skill
The angle or inclination of the axis of the letters relative to the baseline. There
are three classes:
a. Slant to the left;
b. Slant to the right; and
c. Vertical Slant.
SLOPE/SLANT
- He personal pace at which the writer’s pen moves across the paper.
SPEED OF WRITING
-Not everyone writes at the same rate so that consideration of the speed of writing may be a significant identifying element.
SPEED (SPEEDY) WRITING
Writing speed cannot be measured precisely from the finished handwriting but can be interpreted in broad terms of slow, moderate or rapid.
SPEED (SPEEDY) WRITING
-The combination of the basic design of letters and the writing movement as taught in school make up the writing system.
SYSTEM (OF WRITING)
Writing throughout use diverges from the system, but generally retains some influence of the basic training
SYSTEM (OF WRITING)
The degree of force exerted on the pen compared to the degree of relaxation.
TENSION
- An indefinite connective form that looks flat and wavy
THREADY FORM
The degree to which the writing varies from the copybook model.
VARIABILITY
- The act or process of changing.
VARIATION
-The amount of space left between words.
WORD SPACE
Both the circumstances under which the writing was prepared and the factors influencing the writer’s ability to write at the time of execution.
WRITING CONDITION
- Any writing executed with the opposite hand that normally used; a.k.a as the “with the awkward hand”. It is one of the means to disguise.
WRONG-HANDED WRITING
The result of the pen touching down on the paper and moving across the page, until it is raised from the paper.
WRITING IMPULSE
