Handwriting analysis

Handwriting analysisJune 29, 2014

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Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.Discuss How Handwriting Communicates the personality of the writer. 6/29/2014Aujala naveedRoll no. 07

Prepared for:Shaharyar HaiderLecturerDepartment of Computer Science,GCU Lahore

Letter of TransmittalAujala naveedStudent,Department of architecture,Punjab University,Lahore. 54000June 27, 2014

Shaharyar HaiderLecturerDepartment of English,GCU Lahore. 54000

Dear Teacher,As requested, the student of your class aujala naveed has prepared a report which examines how handwriting communicates. This is subject is analyzed in the light of dictum: Handwritingis civilization's casual encephalogram. The topic you had assigned me is handwritingis civilization's casual encephalogram. To see how handwriting communicates a persons way of thinking and how it portrays his character.The purpose of this report is to present the findings of detailed survey, research, and analysis.

The findings of this report show how handwriting is basically a representation of what our personally is like. Moreover, how it can be analyzed to get this information.

Yours Sincerely,

Aujala naveedStudentExecutive Summary

Handwriting becomes a Polygraph or Oscilloscope read-out of your "complete self." To you, it's just handwriting, but to a handwriting analyst, it paints a picture of the person "behind the pen." So this report aims to find of ways to analysis the personality of the writer by techniques generally used. The scope is refined to the general characteristics of handwriting, as well as the personality traits that they reflect. Methods used are observational as well as researched from textual analysis.Findings include the characteristics of writing which are further analysed to make up a personality mindset and lastly, concluded to how this knowledge is further implementable in different fields and professions.

Table of ContentsTitle page ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1)Letter of Transmittal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2)Executive Summary --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3)Table of contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4)List of Tables ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4)IntroductionBackground ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (5)Aim ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5)Scope ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5)Methodology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5)ContentFindings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (6)Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (7)Conclusions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (7)Works cited list-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (9)

Introduction

Background:Your brain guides your hand. Everything put on paper is a result of a two-way circuit between your brain and the motor reflex muscles of your hand.Handwriting becomes a Polygraph or Oscilloscope read-out of your "complete self." To you, it's just handwriting, but to a handwriting analyst, it paints a picture of the person "behind the pen."

AimsThis report aims to analyze the handwriting of individual to depict the personality of that person, in the light of famous dictum: Handwritingis civilization's casual encephalogram. It sheds light on the techniques used to carry out this analysis. ScopeEvery individual have different style of writing as his/her brain have different ways to show whats going on in his mind so we came across with a idea to make this project.One can easily give the digital sample of his/her handwriting to a computer and it calculates the features using the image processing techniques and predicts the nature of the writer. So the scope is restricted to the methods used and the general apprehensions that you can make about the personality of the writer.

MethodologyFor the initiation and subsequent completion of this research report, qualitative methodology is used. Moreover, both the primary and secondary sources have been used for the collection of relevant data. The analysis of data is made with the help of close textual analysis.

Findings We considered six main different types of features:(I) size of letters (II) Slant of letters and words (III) Baseline(IV) Pen pressure (V) Spacing between letters (VI) Spacing between words in a document to identify the personality of the writer.

These are the basic ways to characterize the writing types and styles:

S.NO. WRITING CATEGORIESPERSONALITY BEHAVIOUR

1 LARGE LETTERSLikes being noticed, stands out in crowd

2 SMALL LETTERSIntrospective, not seeking attention, modest

3 MEDIUM LETTERSAdaptable, fits into a crowd, practical, balanced

4 RIGHT SLANTSociable, responsive, interested in others, friendly

5 LEFT SLANTReserved , observant , self-reliant

6 VERTICALPractical , independent, controlled ,

7 LIGHT PEN PRESSUREStrong emotion , successful, emotion last for long time

8 HEAVY PEN PRESSURETry to avoid energy draining situations

9 FAR SPACING LETTERSOpenness of sentiment and intelligence

10 CLOSE SPACING LETTERCloseness of sentiment and intelligence

11 FAR SPACING WORDSGive me breathing space

12 CLOSE SPACING WORDSWish to be with others , intrusive

13 RAISING BASELINESOptimistic, upbeat, positive attitude

14 FALLING BASELINESTired , overwhelmed , pessimistic , not hopeful

AnalysisNow mixing the traits:1. A writer with heavy pressure and a vertical slant.Heavy pressure= strong emotions and vertical slant= trying to hold emotions back. This writer is usually the one who keeps his wits about him. When "all hell breaks loose," his head rules. He will not be as emotionally responsive as a right slant writer and will "keep cool". This "heavy pressure-vertical slant" writer won't be able to keep his cool all of the time. When his emotions get the best of him he may "fly off the handle" at unpredictable times.2. A person with light pressure writing (not much emotional or physical energy) and a left slant (tries to avoid emotional situations). This person will be emotionally withdrawn, cold, indifferent and self centred.There are many steps involved in creating a complete personality profile. Using these first two steps you can begin to put together your own "profile" which can be useful in both personal and professional relationships.

ConclusionHandwriting analyzing can tell a lot about: Your Personality Your emotions Your likes and dislikes Your Strengths and weakness Your intellect and much more.

Not only for personal information is it used by: Large companies use graphology (handwriting analyzing) to check job applications, The police still use handwriting experts to determine who wrote what. Coupled with psychology and knowledge of human behavior, it can be used for many varied purposes. For example, Recruitment, Marriage compatibility, Career Guidance, Motivate workers, Child development.. Etc. Comparing paragraph analysis with signature: Signature is not the best way to analyze character from handwriting, for several reasons. Firstly, the Signature is sometimes illegible and different from the normal handwriting. Secondly, the lone signature does not give enough words and letters to help the graphologist in his/her judgment. But signature samples do have certain advantage. Firstly they are easy to collect; even over long periods of time. Graphology can analyze a person's personality without the persons knowledge that he/she is being analyzed. Thus reducing the possibility of inaccuracies due to conscious or unconscious effort by the subject to affect the result. Distortion of the result due to the subject's knowledge that he/she is being analyzed is common in most Question-&-Answer type of personality analysis tools. It's better to use graphology to analyze the handwriting of a pure untainted subject , rather than to put the subject under unnatural stress of a long questionnaire. Also, a single personality questionnaire may reveal a single dimension of personality. But two handwriting samples of the same person at different occasion may reveals different behaviour characteristics

Works Cited

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