GRAPHOLOGY

GRAPHOLOGY

“Written words are the symbols of Spoken words.” – Aristotle

Today in many companies, the handwriting of employees is used as lie detectors and it is called polygraph. Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting. “Graphology” is the study of handwriting and in particular in order to reveal character and personality traits. It was in 19^th Century a monk by name Michon collected and studied thousands of handwriting samples, eventually publishing an account of his system of analyses. It has become a part of Psychology courses. Psychologists use graphology and for studying human behavior.

Graphologists try to predict the character of an individual and say whether they are “aggressive, ambitious, artistic, cultured, dishonest, honest, imaginative, independent, loyal, quarrelsome, reserved talkative etc”

Mind -Hand-Coordination is an important trait to be followed by all students. While writing, they should face the paper and write. This will facilitate them to read and write. If they make it a habit, they can correct their own careless errors in their writing. By correcting their own errors in their test papers, they can expect five to ten marks extra in every test paper.

Hand Writing has been considered as a life time companion. It is a skill and a habit. It has great values for Indian students. There is a good relationship between their handwriting and scoring of marks. Good handwriting tempts the examiners and they become biased towards it and provide good marks. Further the student’s thinking is also depends a lot on their writing. The Students with poor Hand writing hesitate to read their own writing. They think that it is their fate and their writing habit cannot be changed.

Poor writing can be completely changed provided the writers think over it and ready to change it. They should not forget that good handwriting gives pleasure to the readers. On the contrary poor or bad handwriting invites the wrath of the examiners and it is a dishonour for them to go through it because they couldn’t make out anything from it.

Most of the students are unaware of the effects of their handwriting. Any student or adult can change or improve their writing within a day. The following ideas will help the students to improve their handwriting. The handwriting should be legible. Enough space between letters and words should be maintained throughout the writing. The correct shape of the letters should be in mind while writing them and also they should see that the letters are big enough to read without any constraint. The general rule in writing with space is that the students should not write not more than four to five words in a line and in a page they should not write more than twenty five lines