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Looking for advice, resources, and textbook recommendations on
technical & professional writing.

I'm tutoring someone with extensive software development expertise who's now looking to improve her technical writing skills. She's also dyslexic, and any resources specific to strategies and pedagogies for adult learners with dyslexia would be appreciated.

It's been a long while since I've taught composition, and I was hoping the #rhetcomp community would have some suggestions. I appreciate your help!

Please feel free to tag anyone who you'd think I could benefit from following, too.

#rhetoricandcomposition
#writingcommunity #writing #writingpedagogy #composition #teaching #writinginstructor #highered #technicalwriting

Mirage

They had this idea, just one shot in which three very, very unlikely people were seen as NASCAR drivers. And I think they approached Julian Schnabel, Lou Reed, and me. (Laughs) And we were all supposed to be wearing the uniforms and the helmet, walking in slow motion with the heat haze. That would have been fantastic, but all of us couldn’t do it.

~ Salman Rushdie, from Salman Rushdie – The Talks

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I was a junior in high school when Rushdie’s, Satanic Verses was published in 1988. The book was widely mentioned; It wasn’t really discussed, but rather it was just that everyone knew about its existence, and everyone had an opinion about it. Thinking back, I’m sure my opinion was simply a *hunh* and “that’s interesting.” To this day, I’ve not read the book, not for any particular reason but simply because there are way to many books I have reasons to read. The whole thing (back in the 80s) now feels like some sort of mirage: Real, vivid, and important, but in the end it wasn’t a real thing. The mirage was about a real thing, but it wasn’t real.

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