Handwriting Analysis Lab Report

Handwriting Analysis Lab Report The purpose of this report is to show the similarities between the ransom note and the suspects handwriting. My
partners and I used 12 different characteristics to analyze the handwriting of the ransom note. The characteristics were; smoothness of line quality,
word and margin spacing, ratio of small letters to capitals, continuous writing, letter connections, complete letter formations, cursive writing,
pressure, slant, litters written on line, fancy curls or loops, and if the t's are crossed and I's are dotted. My partners and I were able to eliminate
every suspect besides one, and we proved that that person wrote the ransom note. The writing in the ransom note was not continuous. Continuous
writing is when the spacing between words remains consistent even when there is punctuation, such as a period...show more content...
The ransom note was written on a lined piece of notebook paper, so the author of the note should have written on the lines. The authors writing
was 2 millimeters of the line at most and it varied throughout the note. If the author of a ransom note does not write on the lines of a lined paper
in can be very distinguishing. However, most of the suspect writers did not write on the line. The varying distance of the authors writing from the
line also made it difficult to find a clear–cut author through this characteristic. Fancy curls or loops in someone writing can be defined as; any
elaborative or unneeded additions to letters. This can be a very helpful characteristic in identifying the author of a ransom note. If a person
writes a certain letter with a giant unneeded loop or curve, they are probably one of few people that writes that certain letter in that way. The
author of our ransom note wrote their g's with an exaggerated curve on the hook of the g. This was a helpful characteristic in narrowing down
our suspects, as very few of the suspects wrote their g's in this

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