It's off to the library to send in my first assignment for our Writing for the Print Media class. My reason for doing so (instead of from this computer) was that our computer wsn't letting me attach a Word document. It also wasn't letting me us Word to measure the "readability" or "grade level" of my writing. (To find this out, you go on the Word document to Options and then to Spelling and Gramnmar and enable the Readability box. Then when you click on Spelling and Grammar a box pops up telling you those stats.) On our assignments we're supposed to have those items at the bottom of the pieces we submit. (I think we're also supposed to include the percentage of Passive Voice which appears in our writing.)

To someone interested in writing this really is rather fascinating. It tries to quantify what makes good writing and why it is we find reading certain things such a chore and other things such a pleasure. The prof was quick to emphasize that having a low grade level for your writing wasn't necessarily better: it depends on the audience you're trying to reach. But if you want to reach the greatest number of people, you need to write simply. C.S. Lewis, for example, demonstrated that writing simply didn't preclude great thought.

So, with that flash of brilliance I will conclude and hurry off to the library since I've got a computer booked for nine minutes from now!