Research on Slide Design

[Hillary Hart]

I'm forwarding this message from Michael Alley (Penn State).
Hillary


Dear Faculty and Professional Instructors in STC:

  As part of a research project on how new ideas gain acceptance in 
engineering and science, a few of us are surveying those who are 
teaching or have taught a presentation slide design that challenges 
PowerPoint's default design of a short phrase headline supported by 
bullet points. In particular, we are focused on a slide design that 
features a sentence-assertion headline supported by visual evidence. 
For examples of this slide design, please see Technical Communication 
(vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 417-426) or the following web-site:

<http://writing.eng.vt.edu/slides.html>http://writing.eng.vt.edu/slides.html

Should you teach this type of design and should you be willing to be 
surveyed as part of our research project, would you please contact 
Michael Alley (malley at engr.psu.edu)? We will not only acknowledge 
your contributions in any publication, but will also provide you with 
access to a number of teaching resources for this design.

Best wishes,
Michael Alley

malley at engr.psu.edu

  _________________________________

  Michael Alley

Associate Professor, Engineering Communication

Undergraduate Studies, College of Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

201 Hammond Building; University Park, PA 16802

(814)867-0251


Dr. Hillary Hart
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Civil Engineering, ECJ 8.6
301 East Dean Keeton
Austin, TX 78712-1786

campus mail: C1786
(512) 471-4635
(512) 471-5870 (fax)
hart at mail.utexas.edu
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/hart/
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