Rethinking the design of presentation slides: A case for sentence headlines and visual evidence

Technical Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 417-426

  Alley, Michael ^a   Neeley, Kathryn A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

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