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I transcribe below an article published in its press day in Colombia, on the use of writing and in particular the graphotherapy. I decide to copy it here because I find it very interesting.

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Education Juan Pablo Sanabria, 13, in class last Tuesday with Beatriz Prada. In an era of computing, there are still classes in calligraphy, but with more practical uses.

The class is in a tiny apartment room with walls crammed with parchments.

A big dog guards the door, and the teacher calls go barefoot and breathing exercises and stretching prior.

If the student wants to have a good hand, costs a lot of patience. That's for sure. And, well, I mean pay 675 thousand pesos for 12 classes of two hours and a practical book. But

who is interested in these days to pay so much to learn cursive?

Beatriz Prada To the teacher, the question, since his best seasons (Easter and holidays) serves three people a day, and one month in March as it is two classes per day.

The course is a whole ceremony for both school children with a mother concerned about her doodle, to an engineer who needs a good test to get a job calligraphy.

Background, Gregorian music "to facilitate the merger." A wooden bird and a branding iron (musical instrument) help break down the syllables, and a textbook for square letters is the main element of the class.

"They all come write well after twelve classes. ...", Prada said in a tone of television spot.

"But what is good writing?" Asks the linguist and researcher Raul Botero, of the Universidad Nacional in Medellin. "Be nice or nasty letter is somewhat subjective."

He is not alone in questioning the desire for a good hand with Beatriz Prada English teachers or those enamored of the flat. Several scholars agree that literacy today when the computer moved the pencil and paper, the calligraphy itself is obsolete.

"An average student grow up believing that writing is absurd, because the school is haunted by the formal aspects, such as spelling and handwriting. It is more important to learn to be producers of oral texts, written, visual and others, who write in cursive or loose, "said Mauricio Pérez, leader of research in literacy from the Universidad Javeriana.

Perez said that even before children learn to spell should know storytelling, and the teacher to take dictation. "We are in another context. Young people today are writing on todoaudiovisuales, the school has not assimilated," says Botero.

Who to believe?

In the middle are teachers and Guayara Herlinda, who teaches English at the Colegio Público Antonio Nariño in Bogotá. Although not a fan, it strives to elementary students write with impeccable lyrics. " That's his personality, and should take care," says .

In the more advanced schools in the matter, such as Colombo and Calatrava Wales

Bogotá, calligraphy classes remain valid, but have eliminated most important plans and consider the contents of what is written.

The reason that survives the matter has to do with body development. In both schools believe that calligraphy, along with activities such as swimming, modeling clay, drawing skating and improve motor skills.

"In any event, if we give importance, must be linked to job creation. The year the children should write a book, but if they can do by computer. The important thing is to create," says Tommy Davila, director of primary Colombo Wales.

And Magdalena Garces, director of Calatrava and a leader of calligraphy therapy for disabled children, curiously says the computer is the one that has helped to overcome the problems of reading and writing.

"Of course, we must teach children to write by hand because it carried the two sides of the brain, but also more modern and use the computer," he says.

In any case, Beatriz Prada continues to refine his method. Customers have to spare, and more computers to use, good lyrics remain concerned.

"What is important calligraphy? It is necessary for daily life, school, work ... No matter if it is detached, standing or lying down. The bottom line is that is clear, to communicate. "

Beatriz Prada, empirical calligrapher for 40 years teaching classes.

From doctors to schoolgirls, all defend his personality on the line

FERNANDO MORA Emergency Medical

"I've done all the courses have or might have, and my handwriting is still very bad. I had to start using a typewriter, because patients buying drugs that were not.

MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ

Fifth grade student

"At first I had the words ugly, but already I'm getting better, because I like it to look nice. I write with different colors to make them look more orderly notebooks." MARTHA DIAZ

language teacher.

"It's important to write pretty well, as my name, which takes 'h' to distinguish it from animal called the same. The letter reflects the personality and ideas." CAMILA

BONILLA
Student Grade 11

"I love the decorations to write. The letter is most beautiful women because dedicated time and subtlety to the time of writing. Good writing is a reflection of cleanliness. "

'The letter cure'

most popular uses include the calligraphy is the treatment.

Web sites advertise services Colombians graph therapy consisting, in its practitioners, to use handwriting to improve health problems physical or mental .

The therapists graph theory is that if someone corrects an outline in a letter ; specific can improve any aspect of your life, says Beatriz Prada, who knows the technique but not practice.

Another therapy available focuses on children with motor problems. is used to stimulate the brain writing.

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Writing a person can be modified on a voluntary or involuntary. In this chapter will refer to the latter, ie those that occur regardless of the will of the persona.Por therefore the reasons set out below can not be seen to be done with fraudulent intent, as they are outside the will of the person.

Within this

divide the causes involuntary change the script into two groups: exogenous and endogenous .

a) Exogenous:

These are causes that are not from the person and that occur at a particular time and whose influence is short on writing . Endogenous causes are the following:

"The writing implement:
Generally, the writing tools that are commonly used include pen, marker and to a lesser extent the pencil and pen. There are elements of writing that can be altered by one or other tool we use scriptural. Thus, the pressure aspects (size and voltage) and size are the two most graphic parameters can be affected. Thus whenever we can, it is necessary to have an undoubted sample for comparison to be made in the same sample useful scriptural hesitant undoubted by requesting appropriate documentation or by conducting the body of writing for the court.
- Paper:
Paper is another element to consider. Its smooth, finish or permeability can influence and affect the pressure speed, the appearance of tremors, tension of the track, mostly.
- Support:

We refer here to the place where we support the paper it is written. Is not the same be writing resting on a table, which on a car, for example, or on a wall. The do it on one or another medium can distort any of the aforementioned graphics.
- Location:
course, is not the same type sitting than standing, for example. The position we take at the time of writing may influence the onset of changes, such as tilt, direction, shape and speed, especially.
- Weather conditions:
climatic factors that most influence major changes in the characteristics of writing, are cold and heat.
The cold can affect the speed (decreasing) pressure (causing pressure is less and less firm, with a decrease of the voltage appearing tremors in the event that the cold is very intense), size (plotting points small), address (appearing lines down). For its part, the heat will also produce a decrease in speed, but Unlike what happens with cold, here the size will be greater, especially in the upper zone (HAMP) and bottom (doorposts).

As already mentioned, there are also a number of causes that are rooted in his own person, inside, endogenous causes.

b) Endogenous:

Mainly we
, age, disease and causes mental and physical.

- Age:
Just as we as a people we are evolving and changing with the different stages of life, the same applies to our writing, presenting a graphic that will run parallel evolution, more or less, with the stages we go through. So not the same our writing when we are children, adolescents, adults, or already in the mature stage. Our writing is influenced by the changes, more or less rapid, they emerge within us.
- Diseases:
In this case we are not referring to diseases that have a brief duration, producing a slight modification in writing, but those that the person has from birth or from early childhood, or those that has occurred in adulthood and suffer for a long period of time.
therefore distinguish between disease and gained permanent.


Three of the diseases that are usually studied in these two cases are related to addictions (alcohol and toxic drugs) and Parkinson's disease.

- alcohol intoxication: When alcohol is ingested in large quantities over long periods of time, greatly affects the body, and even in writing its effects are evident. The main feature observed is the occurrence of tremors in the lines leading to what we call pressure or rosary beads. Besides this, also often affected the size, with irregularities in it, and the last letters in the word are smaller, the letters are distorted, the direction is downward and sinuous lines. They are also frequent breezes, and even breakage or loss of pressure.

-poisoning by drugs: drug effects that occur in writing are very similar to those observed in alcoholism, although there are tremors that are not characteristic of the previous pressure rosary. The pressure is generally weak-loose and twists abound in trazos.Otra of the features that usually occurs in both addiction and alcoholism in the general disorganization of the writing.

- Parkinson is a disease of adulthood, characterized mainly and what we touch, tremor and muscle rigidity that originate in localized disease in the brain. The tremor is the main feature in writing, appearing mainly in the horizontal strokes. Also, the person will usually do is reduce the size of the script, to being unable to control his shaking it at least less noticeable.

- Causes psychophysical:


In this section we refer to the graphic forms which produce two psychological phenomena in concrete.

- Nervousness:
cerebral overdrive can be precipitated, even pressure is often so strong that it can get to break the paper, written apparent disorder which makes it virtually unreadable.

- Depressive states:
As a result of inhibition that occurs in depression, both mental functions such as physics, the spellings are slow, small size, irregular shape, acquiring written in a general impression of disorder, together with a type of coligamentos dominated the juxtaposition of the graphs (detached writing in general).

far some of the main reasons that we need volunteers not know. Others, known as voluntary, will be the subject of another article another time.