This user is or was a United States Peace Corps Volunteer
deldred@wiki:~$ I'm an English language teacher originally from the Unites States. I use my knowledge to improve the readability of
English Wilipedia.
About
My varied career includes working at an ISP in tech support, a life insurance company, working in robotics, and in the nuclear power industry. I obtained my
Bachelor of Science from a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, majoring in Education. Currently I am volunteering in the
Kyrgyz Republic as an
English language teacher. Although I am a native speaker of American English, I teach British English. I also sometimes
copy edit academic papers for non-native English speaking university students to make their work grammatically correct and more readable. I also sometimes do copy editing for various businesses to make their English language content grammatically accurate and more readable.
I am able to write, teach, and edit both
American English and
British English in terms of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, prepositional usage,
article differences, and differences that are
collocative in nature.
I plan on keeping
userboxes to a minimum; mostly showing ones that showcase relevant skills related my goal of improving the grammar and readability of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Projects
Public Domain Literature
Updated the
Standard Ebooks Wiki page with a more comprehensive one
Books, Book Pages, Author Pages, etc,
I love them! But I don't keep books. Many people have a large library of both read, and unread books. When I am finished with a book I either sell it, donate it, or give it to someone. I am somewhat of a minimalist and tend to not keep things, including books, that aren't something that I use daily or regularly. I do however have one book that I don't plan on getting rid of - my copy of
The Handmaid's Tale I got signed by
Margaret Atwood at a book signing in Prague.