I do think a properly hand-written readme it better, but if not, here's a blatant plug - https://github.com/joelio/plain-english https://github.com/joelio/plain

I do think a properly hand-written readme it better, but if not, here's a blatant plug - https://github.com/joelio/plain-english https://github.com/joelio/plain-english