Presentation software: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University


Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 5 May 2006

Alley, Michael, and Kathryn A Neeley. "Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides: A Case for Sentence Headlines and Visual Evidence." Technical Communication 52.4 (2005): 417-427.

Coates, James. "Whiteboard Drawing Feature on PowerPoint Kept Stashed Away." Chicago Tribune 10 Jan. 2005.

"Does PowerPoint Make Us Stupid?" CNN.com 30 December 2003.

Doumont, Jean-Luc. "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Slides Are Not All Evil." Technical Communication 52.1 (2005): 64-71.

Keller, Julia. "Killing Me Microsoftly with PowerPoint." Chicago Tribune 5 Jan. 2003.

Parker, Ian. "Absolute Powerpoint." The New Yorker (28 May 2001): 76-87.

Thompson, Clive. "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb." New York Times 14 December 2003.

Vienne, Veronique. "David Byrne's Alternate PowerPoint Universe." New York Times 17 Aug. 2003.