Audience perceptions of fonts in projected PowerPoint text slides

Technical Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-307

  Mackiewicz, Jo ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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