PowerPoint doesn’t make bad presentations, People do.

March 31, 2004

Perception Is Reality.
By Peter Coffee. Eweek,
December 1, 2003.

Coffee does not go quite as far as Edward Tufte in his dislike of Powerpoint. But he does go at least as far in his dislike of bad presentations.

Bad presentations result from people learning to write with a model of “topic sentence, body, conclusion,” instead of a journalistic model of “lead (conclusion), significance, supporting details.”

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