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The document discusses different types of handwriting styles including finger movement, hand movement, and forearm movement. It describes various qualities of handwriting such as speed, smoothness, directness and qualities like clumsy, hesitating, strong and nervous. It examines elements like angular lines, pen strokes, expansion, coordination, pressure, direction and rhythm that contribute to analyzing handwriting styles.

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2 - Movement in Hand Writing

The document discusses different types of handwriting styles including finger movement, hand movement, and forearm movement. It describes various qualities of handwriting such as speed, smoothness, directness and qualities like clumsy, hesitating, strong and nervous. It examines elements like angular lines, pen strokes, expansion, coordination, pressure, direction and rhythm that contribute to analyzing handwriting styles.

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HAND WRITING

 Finger Movement – this includes the thumb, the


first, second and slightly the third fingers are in
actual motion. Most usually employed by children and
illiterates.
 Hand Movement – this is produced by the movement
or action of the whole hand with the wrist as the
center of attraction.
 Forearm Movement – this is the movement of the
shoulder, hand and arm with the support of the table.
 Whole Forearm Movement – this is the action of the
entire arm without resting, i.e., blackboard writing.
 Clumsy, illiterate and halting
 Hesitating and painful due to weakness and
illness
 Strong, heavy and forceful
 Nervous and irregular
 Smooth, flowing and rapid
 Slow and drawn
 Deliberate
 Average
 Rapid
 Smoothness
 Directness
 Uniformity
 Continuityof strokes
 Connecting or curves between letters
 This
is the special way in which the various
muscles used in writing work together to
produced written forms.
 Free, smelt rounded curves
 Gradual changes of directions
 Pressure is always in the state of change,
moving from light to heavy or from heavy to
light.
 Speed
 The shading impulse is distributed over a
considerable length of the line whereas in
writing in produced with a slow motion as in
the finger movement, the shading often has
a “bunchy” appearance, in which the
maximum width of the shaded line is
attained abruptly.
 Wavering and very irregular line or strokes
with uncertain and unsteady progress. There
is no freedom of movement along the strokes
of the letterforms. The writing is obviously
very slow and is typical of the writing of a
young child or for anyone who painstakingly
draws a picture of an unfamiliar form.
 AngularLine – This is a very common fault of
coordination. Curves, large and small are not
smoothly rounded and there is no gradual
change of direction. On the contrary, and
angle marks almost every change are
direction in the line. Investigating has
disclosed that angles are accompanied by a
lessening of writing speed.
 Thisis the path traced by the pen on the
paper. It should be observed whether the
course of the strokes is continuous or broken.
The pen stroke is the visual record of the
writing movement.
 Expansion – whether the movement is
extended or limited in its range with respect
to both vertical and horizontal dimension.
 Coordination – whether the flow of
movement is controlled or uncertain, smooth
or jerky, continuous or interrupted.
 Speed – whether the movement has been
rapid or slow and whether the space has
been steady or variable.
 Pressure – whether the pressure exerted in
the movement on its upward and downward
reach.
 Direction – Leftward or rightward trend of
they movement and its upward and
downward reach.
 Rhythm – In the sequence of movements that
wave the total pattern, certain similar
phases recur at more or less regular interval.

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