It was the second day of my Writing for the Media class yesterday, and I learned some interesting stuff about writing for the masses or anyone in general. The first lesson was that when writing you should "always think of the audience first! This is a crucial lesson because the information that I learned in class today was sad to say the least. Im gonna give the scary statistics that I learned in class. First 58% of high school graduates never read another book after graduating. Then one would think that those who graduated from a school of higher learning would certainly invest some time in some casual reading but you would be wrong, 48% of college graduates never read another book after graduating from college. The last statistic that im going to throw your way is that the average reading level in America is reading at the 5th grade level. With all of these statistics it makes your wonder if there is even a point to writing at all, but dont lose hope just yet because there are ways to write and have people read what you write. That is we need to simplify writings for the audience and apply the knowledge of the reader. Mainly as the professor said we need to "keep it short and simple." So with that in mind im going to finish my blog for the day.