I'm enrolled in school! Well, in a way.

[cjsmith]

Every so often I notice that a snippet I wrote did not get its point across. Sometimes it's a piece I thought I wrote clearly, and other times it's something I wrote in haste. About half the times, I look at my words and the responses and I simply cannot figure out how the point got missed.

I do believe communication takes two (or more) interested parties, but I also strongly believe that if it's *me* who wants to get an idea across, the majority of the burden is on *me* to make that happen.

I was musing about all this this morning, and I came up with the idea of "writing comprehensibility training". That's what I need, right? Making my writing more clear would help, right? Maybe there's a course, I thought.

So I envisioned a school where I would be asked to write many separate pieces per week, ranging in length from a few lines to a well-thought-out multipage essay. The benefit of this course would be the readers. For most if not all of the things I wrote I'd get feedback from multiple readers as to what THEY thought the piece was about. As readers' feedback mentioned more and more the point(s) I had set out to make, I'd know my writing was becoming clearer and less likely to be misunderstood.

Then I thought: CJ, you have an account on LiveJournal.