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Elite Investigative Journal
Detailed Guidelines for Graphologists on How to Collect Handwriting Samples, pg 10-11
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Detailed Guidelines for F

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Graphologists on How to Collect R

Handwriting Samples G
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By Kathleen Amos Y

Now we must get to some conscious concern about unsuspecting efforts-even
things that you must re- how the writing looks, the then you throw away the D
member if you want to expression of the writer’s first page of the sample. E

analyze writing. First, it character can slip in. Another thing to look for C
is important to realize that The serious graphologist is consistency. Be sure E

everyone’s handwriting is, must collect several sam- that the characteristics of P
in one way or another, a ples of the subject’s writ- the writing are repeated. T
learned thing. We are not ing. Ideally, these should One time is not enough-it I

born with it. Our writing be produced at different might be just a slip of the O
shows the effects of the times and with different pen. N

efforts of our teachers, our pens.
own ideas of what good Now you are ready to L
handwriting is, and the job The collecting must be collect your samples. I

writing does for us. done on the sly. A piece Remember to be sure E
of writing created to be that they are real and not S

Think back. Probably ev- analyzed is almost use- disguised. Since we all
eryone has experimented less. The subject may be disguise our handwriting
with a change in his or her showing off or trying to from time to time, here is

handwriting at some time disguise some of his or her a list of things not to use
or another. After you have traits. And in almost all in analysis:

settled on your handwrit- cases, the subject will be
ing, it usually becomes too self-conscious about 1. Don’t use hastily writ-
automatic. You don’t think his or her writing to give ten samples. They do not

about it anymore. What you a typical sample. really reflect the sub-
happens is that the pen Some graphologists feel ject’s true writing.

or pencil seems to have that the ideal sample is
a mind of its own. At the made up of two whole 2. Don’t use a sample
point where there is little pages of the subject’s with just a few words

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