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Presentations and the PowerPoint problem--Part II.(Focus On Teaching)
Business Communication Quarterly, June, 2004 by Dyrud, Marilyn A.; Worley, Rebecca B.
EVEN A CASUAL SEARCH of the LexisNexis database for articles on PowerPoint returns hundreds of references. For every article that insists "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb" (Thompson, 2003), another just below it on the list encourages you to follow these "44 Tips and Tricks to Help Turbocharge your PowerPoint Presentation" (Finkelstein, 2003). And so the discussion continues. If we reached any consensus from our discussion in Part I, it was that the fault lies not with the software but with the user, or, as one article claims in that LexisNexis list, "Bullet Points May Be Dangerous, but Don't Blame PowerPoint" (Simons, 2004).
The authors in Part II of this Focus on Teaching column represent exactly that point of view. In their teaching of the oral presentation, they...
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