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Subject:Re: writing for non-native speakers of English From:Buck and Tilly Buchanan <writer -at- WF -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:30:01 -0500
Here's the Buck way:
In one of my previous lives, I taught ESL, English as a Second Language.
In doing so, I became proficient in communicating with, for want of a
better term, ESL Readers.
I found it quite easy then, to write with ESL Readers as my audience.
Essentially, it means writing to a F-K RGL of about four.
Try a Junior College course in ESL or Teaching ESL.
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Buck Buchanan
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