Deldred

deldred
Born: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Nationality: American
Occupation: Volunteer Teacher Copy Editor Tutor
This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 10 months and 28 days.
en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
TEFLThis user is a teacher of English as a foreign language.
US/UKThis user writes and teaches British and American English but speaks American English.
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.