Reading and Writing
The book “Academic Writing and Dyslexia: A Visual Guide to Writing at University” aims to be helpful and accessible to dyslexics. However, it contains irrelevant information that makes the book harder to read. The ideas in the book lack innovation and fail to actively address the challenges dyslexics face when reading and writing academic texts. It seems as though the author is deeply entrenched in academic ideas and accepts the shortcomings of academic writing as a given, without attempting to solve the larger problems. For example, the poor quality of academic writing in general.
Academic Writing and Dyslexia: A Visual Guide to Writing at University
On the other hand, this book by Gowers expresses very articulately how to improve written communication to make it clearer. It is out of copyright, so it is available online as a website.
The Complete Plain Words
Data
Edward Tufte has written a couple of brilliant books on how to clearly present complex information, in particular data. There are a number of Github projects that use his destinctive aesthetic to create templates and style sheats for a number of formats including the web and LaTex.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Beautiful Evidence
