Skill Level

Every person who writes has their own skill level.  Skill level represents one's ability to construct letter, character and number forms, the size and shape of letter, character and number forms and how one places them on the writing surface.  The wonderful thing about skill level is that no one can write above their own skill level.  They can write below their skill level but never above.  This is one of the considerations always made when handwriting is being compared.  Someone with a high skill level may write below that skill level in order to 'throw off the scent' (one might say) for the person who is comparing the writing.  But when writing is being compared by a forensic document examiner and that writer has a higher skill level than the person who was supposed to have been the writer, it is readily known that person could not be the writer.  Likewise, when a person is on drugs (street or prescription) that affect the brain or that person is in a drunken state, it becomes impossible for them to write at a higher skill level than they do when sober.  In the field of Forensic Document Examination consideration of skill level is a very important part of the examination process.  Call me today:  580-467-4786