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| The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition
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Edition: 2
Author: Edward R. Tufte
Publisher: Graphics Press
Release Date: 2006
ISBN-10: 0961392169
ISBN-13: 9780961392161
List Price: $7.00
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Don't waste your money
| Customer Rating: | | This short article - it is not long enough to be called a book - is more of a rant than useful instruction. Save your money. He has written several good books on data presentation; this is not one of them. |
Has many excellent points about presentations
| Customer Rating: | | This is a very good read for everyone who has relied on powerpoints to disseminate information, especially critical information |
Standard issue
| Customer Rating: | | Reading and adherence to the guidelines in this handy little tome should be standard operating practice for all who prepare presentations for an audience - be it a classroom, board of directors or jury. |
Required Reading for Government Communicators
| Customer Rating: | | Whether you love or hate Microsoft PowerPoint and its kin, you owe it to yourself to listen to Edward Tufte. His argument is well-reasoned and the evidence damning. While most of us will continue to crank out PowerPoint presentations, we should know the dangers of the form and commit ourselves to "first, do no harm." |
PowerPoint: The Dark Side
| Customer Rating: | | Edward Tufte insightfully tells us how PowerPoint corrupts the communication process by forcing its format on content. For me, this is just another example of dumbing down in general. No longer do managers communicate via reasoned analysis through narrative. No, all communication must be as brief as possible and to the point. Unfortunately, sometimes the point needs more than just a multi-bulleted slide. Tufte's argument is highlighted by the PowerPoint parody of the Gettysburg Address. I too experience the constraint of expressing important detail, context and relationships when the expectation is to fit it into a Word table or a Power Point presentation. Now, this is not a call for wordiness. Unnecessarily long and tedious papers will do just as well in stifling communication. The point is to learn to write well and communicate well, without surrendering to the allure of the promises of new technology that may actually provide the opposite. Read Tufte's treatise and get a good idea of what not to do and why. |
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