My first serious blog!

My intention for indulging in this Blog is my need to improve my writing skills. Most people have a lot of thoughts and ideas in their minds. Some are able to communicate their thoughts and ideas effectively by speech and oration. This requires good diction and good presence of mind (which generally falters at the sight of an audience). But once this is overcome, speech making becomes easy. Few others express their thoughts by prose. Now this requires a whole other set of skills. In this medium one may not be directly in front of one’s audience to experience any kind of stage fright but has the inherent disadvantage of not being able to communicate visually.
The idea in a person’s mind is conceived as whole but like any channel of transmission the whole is affected by “noise” and all one hears is a group of sounds or reads a set of written symbols. Speech gives us many opportunities to convey tone and emphasis by both visual physical expressions and nuances of the speaker’s voice. Written prose has a tougher task of trying to capture these phonetic cues through articulate use of words and flow of thought. Educational research shows that ability to articulate one’s thought through written form requires a high degree of competence not only with language, grammar and vocabulary but also a great deal of understanding and knowledge of psychology.
My intentions though are not to enhance my psychoanalytical skills but to gain the ability to convey thought and intention in written form lucidly and in a more general sense, to be able to express my view point effectively!