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Enhancement Activity Illustration of Handwriting Elements and Characteristics

The document defines 25 characteristics of handwriting including elements such as slant, alignment, shading, ascenders, descenders, and other structural features. It provides definitions and examples of each characteristic, such as that slant refers to the left or right tilt of letters on the page and that ascenders and descenders are letters that extend above or below the baseline. The characteristics cover structural aspects, embellishments, connections between letters, and involuntary marks.

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Enhancement Activity Illustration of Handwriting Elements and Characteristics

The document defines 25 characteristics of handwriting including elements such as slant, alignment, shading, ascenders, descenders, and other structural features. It provides definitions and examples of each characteristic, such as that slant refers to the left or right tilt of letters on the page and that ascenders and descenders are letters that extend above or below the baseline. The characteristics cover structural aspects, embellishments, connections between letters, and involuntary marks.

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CHARACTERISTIC DRAW DEFINE

S
/ELEMENTS
1. Slant The letters lean on either right
or left direction. In axis, the
right slant is on positive part
while the left slant is on the
negative side of the axis.

2. Alignment It is how the letters, words or


whole lines is relatively
positioned on the baseline.

3. Shading Otherwise known as pen


pressure, it is where the
pressure is most applied in
the letters in a word or line. It
can be shown through where
the thickest letter in the
words or lines are.
4. Infralinear These are small letters that
Letters goes through below the
baseline such as g, j, f, q, y,
and z.
5. Supralinear Theses are small or lowercase
Letters letters that extend above the
x height of the baseline.

6. Linear Letters These are lowercase letters


that does not exceed above
the x height and below the
middle baseline.
7. Descender It is simply small letters that
goes beyond the Middle
Baseline.

8. Ascender It is simply the small letters


that goes above the x height
of the baseline.

9. Beaded These are the first stroke


which are fancy, curl, loop, or
underline, etc. that is
common in capital letters.

10. Beard The beginning upstroke of a


letter

11. Margin It is simply the amount of


space left on all four sides of
the paper where the writer
writes.
12. Line Space It is simply the amount of
space in between the letters
including the amount of space
after each word.

13.Patching It is enhancing the


appearance of the letters
through mending of letters,
retouching or repairing the
letters.

14. Hesitation It is where the ink leaks when


slowing down or stop of
writing causing thickening of a
part of letters.
15. Retracing The overlapping of strokes
especially in loop letters
where we overwrite them
causing a loopless letter.
16. Whirl A long upstroke commonly
from letters that contains long
loops but also available for
capital letters that have long
upstroke such as M

17. Staff This is a portion of a letter


that goes below the middle
baseline

18. Diacritic Refers to the dots of letters


such as i, j, and the cross of
letters such as t.

19. Arcade An arch or rounded stroke


found on top of letters such as
m,n and r.

20. Garland It is simply the connecting


stroke forming a dish-shaped
movement where the tops is
open and the bottom is
rounded.

21. Thread Forms Commonly happens when a


person is rushing where the
letters looks flat and wavy.

22. Stem/Shank It is commonly seen in capital


letters where the downward
stroke of a letter is straight
from the top of baseline to
the middle of baseline.
23. Shoulder An extra curve on top of letter
between the up and
downstrokes.

24. Hook It is simply a curved small


stroke or an ankle which
occurs most often on the end
of strokes of each letters.
25. Spur An involuntary stroke made at
the beginning or end of the
stroke of the writer.

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