Non-designers: Designing for better readability
Making your text more readable will help you reach more people. Readability isn’t about making things look pretty. It’s about making your written word accessible to a wide audience. That …
Category: Speaking and presenting tips
Presenting in clear English for diverse audiences
Need to present to a diverse, international audience? Here are some tips.
What’s wrong with “native speaker”? Plus ESL, ELL, EFL…alphabet soup!
In reality, a “native English speaker” means people who are from a Western English-speaking country. The term is used to exclude anyone who doesn’t fit into that group, no matter …
Using language to define one’s identity
“Can you think of a context in which groups use language to define their identity?”