Why do scholars use PowerPoint the way they do?

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 273-291

  Hertz, Brigitte ^a   van Woerkum, Cees ^a   Kerkhof, Peter ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

PowerPoint; Presentations; Scholars; Teaching communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947934952     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2329490615589171     Document Type: Article

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