Rethinking Presentations in Science and Engineering                                                                                                                                  Michael Alley, Penn State
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References

  1. Alley, Michael (2013). The Craft of Scientific Presentations, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag.
  2. Alley, Michael, and Kathryn A. Neeley (2005). Rethinking the design of presentation slides: A case for sentence headlines and visual evidence. Technical Communication, 52 (4), 417-426.
  3. Alley, Michael, Madeline Schreiber, Katrina Ramsdell, and John Muffo (2006). How the design of headlines in presentation slides affects audience retention. Technical Communication, 53 (2), 225-234.
  4. Atkinson, Cliff (2011). Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd ed. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft.
  5. Doumont, Jean-luc (2009). Trees, Maps, and Theorems. Kraainem, Belgium: Principae.
  6. Duarte, Nancy (2008). Slide:ology. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
  7. Garner, Joanna K., Michael Alley, Allen Gaudelli, and Sarah Zappe (2009). The common use of PowerPoint versus the assertion–evidence structure: A cognitive psychology perspective. Technical Communication, 56 (4).
  8. Garner, Joanna K., and Michael Alley (2013). How the design of presentation slides affects audience comprehension: A case for the assertion–evidence approach. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1564-1579.
  9. Garner, Joanna K., and Michael Alley (2016). Slide structure can influence the presenter’s understanding of the presentation’s content. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 32, no. 1(A), pp. 39-54.
  10. Gomes, Lee (2007, June 20). PowerPoint turns 20, as its creators ponder a dark side to success. The Wall Street Journal. B-1.
  11. House, Richard, Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston, and Sean Moseley (2017). The Engineering Communication Handbook. New York: Oxford, pp. 429-433.
  12. Mayer, Richard E. (2001). Multimedia Learning. New York: Cambridge.
  13. Nathans-Kelly, Traci, and Christine Nicometo (2015). Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields, IEEE Press.
  14. Paivio, Allan (1986). Mental Representations. New York: Oxford University Press, 53.
  15. Parker, Ian (2001). Absolute PowerPoint. The New Yorker.
  16. Reynolds, Garr (2008). Presentation Zen. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.
  17. Rogers, Everett M. (2003). The Diffusion of Innovations. New York: Free Press.
  18. Sweller, John (2005). Implications of cognitive load theory for multimedia learning. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, ed. by Richard A. Mayer. New York: Cambridge Press, pp. 19–30.
  19. Toulmin, Stephen E. (2003). The Uses of Argument. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  20. Tufte, Edward R. (2003). PowerPoint is evil. Wired.
  21. Tufte, Edward R. (2003). The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
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