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The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market

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book cover The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market
By: John R. Kohl
ISBN: 978-1-59994-657-3
Pages: 300


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This detailed, example-driven guide illustrates just how much companies or individual communicators can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Documents that conform to the Global English guidelines are easier for non-native speakers of English to read and comprehend, as well as easier and cheaper to translate. The guidelines also make texts clearer and more readable for native speakers, but without going so far as to make the rhythm or style of those texts seem unnatural. This book also discusses how language technologies such as controlled-authoring software and terminology-management software can facilitate the adoption of Global English as a corporate standard.
About the Author

KohlJohn R. Kohl has worked at SAS Institute as a technical writer, technical editor, and linguistic engineer since 1992. For the past several years, John has devoted much of his time to terminology issues and to refining the Global English guidelines. As a linguistic engineer, John customizes and supports tools and processes that help make SAS documentation more consistent, easier to translate, and easier for non-native speakers of English to understand. John has been interested in machine translation and other language technologies for many years, and he is a charter member of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.