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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward R. Tufte
Publisher: Graphics Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 6667
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0961392169
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.58
EAN: 9780961392161
ASIN: 0961392169
Publication Date: 2006
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 What's the goal? December 8, 2008
B. McMackin
If your goal is to learn about improving your presentation style, with or without powerpoint, then this book is not for you.
IF, however, you are interested in reasons and times not to use powerpoint, this might be OK.
If you are looking for a rant on why powerpoint is not an effective presentation tool for complex presentations, this most certainly is for you.
 Presents the bad without an alternative good November 16, 2008
S. J. Chatwin (Ojai, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've admired Tufte's work since he first published "visual display..." so I leapt on this when it appeared and purchased 17 copies for colleagues at work. They liked and agreed with it, but dismissed it as impractical advice!
I find I agree with almost all his points about PowerPoint's dumbing down of information, but then sat back an thought about the message and the medium. Powerpoint is a tool for presentations - it focuses the audience, keeps the presenter on track and provides handy reminders. It's not intended to be a high information content medium.
However the abuse of powerpoint comes in its use a a non-presentation way to distribute information. So often a person who misses the presentation asks for the slides as an alternative to being there. Now Tufte comes into his own and his points are more relevant because the Powerpoint has become the message and there is no presenter to amplify the information.
This pamphlet is useful, but only when considered in context of what you want to do with your PowerPoint slides - are they going to become the message (as in the Columbia examination) or are they the medium to keep the presenter on track. Read his other books as well and write a White Paper or report to go with your slides.
PowerPoint Critique on Point October 19, 2008
Laura H. Breksa
SLIDE ONE
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition by Edward R. Tufte makes me wonder:
- can you make a point in list format?
- why are we in such a hurry to get to our point?
- is Tufte making a statement by referring to PowerPoint as PP in his text?
- why do we think style is more communicative than substance?
SLIDE TWO
Reasons to get and read this book:
- you'll never want to make a class presentation using PowerPoint again, even if it is required you do so
- if you never noticed irritating blips, beeps, background color and distracting graphics...you will after reading the book
- it will give you cause to sit back and really talk for a while about what you think, rather than give visual bites (the PowerPoint version of sound bites)
 Don't waste your money July 29, 2008
jimbo (Santa Clarita, CA)
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 June 9, 2008
Anne-marie Armstrong
This is a very good read for everyone who has relied on powerpoints to disseminate information, especially critical information
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