Clear and to the Point

Stephen M. Kosslyn is Chair of the Department of Psychology and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A leading authority on the nature of visual mental imagery and visual communication, he has received numerous honors for his work in this field. His previous books include Image and Mind, Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience (with Koenig), and Psychology: The Brain, the Person, the World (with Rosenberg).

• 1. Articulate presentations ; 2. The big picture ; 3. Readable text ; 4. Color, texture, animation, and sound ; 5. Communicating quantitative information: using graphs ; 6. Communicating qualitative information: charts, diagrams, maps, and clipart ; 7. The good, the bad, and the incomprehensible ; Appendix: The principles and their specific needs

Kosslyn puts PowerPoint users on notice. Read this book, and you will be enlightened... Kosslyn's thorough and engaging treatment is based on broad scientific literature, and on his extensive experience. Besides covering the myriad features that PowerPoint offers, Kosslyn provides great advice on how to connect with an audience, tell a story, work at the right level of information, and come up for air.