Links/Resources General: The Society for Technical Communication Association for Teachers of Technical Writing Eserver TC Library Gecko PW Resources (Purdue) Instructables Nielsen Norman Group Rhetoric: Burton, Gideon. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (see rhetoric on left) Kinney, Thomas. Corax: The Crow's Nest Rhetoric Resources (Stanford) Wikipedia: Rhetoric A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples Wikipedia: Genre Wikipedia: Argument (lots of links) Toulmin Project Homepage The Toulmin Method What is the Toulmin Model? UNC: Argument (also see handouts) Harvard: Counter Argument (also see resources) Princeton: Terms and Methods Argument Mapping Argument, Persuasion, Propaganda (also see chart) Plain Language: Plain Language.gov Govt Mandates comparisons standard advice headings Center for Plain Language Plain Conference Plain Language Network Plain Train SEC Plain English Handbook Revisiting Plain Language (article) White Papers: White Paper on White Papers (examples) Writing White Papers Preparing White Papers (CWRL) Blakesley excerpt (html) SAGE Guidelines White Papers FAQ On Writing White Papers What are White Papers? IT Papers Writing White Papers for the US IT Market Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Open University. Design Principles for Web Layout (section four) Open University. Four Basic Principles of Visual Design Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design Graphic Design Rules Web Style Guide (see Chapters 2 and 4) Nielsen, Jakob. Usability 101 Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability National Cancer Institute. Web Usability Guidelines Wroblewski, Luke. Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization Design Eye for the Usability Guy Norman, Donald. The Life Cycle of a Technology. Usability Testing Usability Test Storyboard PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint Courses: Carol Siri Johnson, English 352 - Technical Writing Jim Kalmbach, English 249 - Introduction to Technical Writing Peg Dunkle, English 421 - Technical Writing
General:
Rhetoric: Burton, Gideon. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (see rhetoric on left) Kinney, Thomas. Corax: The Crow's Nest Rhetoric Resources (Stanford) Wikipedia: Rhetoric A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples Wikipedia: Genre Wikipedia: Argument (lots of links) Toulmin Project Homepage The Toulmin Method What is the Toulmin Model? UNC: Argument (also see handouts) Harvard: Counter Argument (also see resources) Princeton: Terms and Methods Argument Mapping Argument, Persuasion, Propaganda (also see chart) Plain Language: Plain Language.gov Govt Mandates comparisons standard advice headings Center for Plain Language Plain Conference Plain Language Network Plain Train SEC Plain English Handbook Revisiting Plain Language (article) White Papers: White Paper on White Papers (examples) Writing White Papers Preparing White Papers (CWRL) Blakesley excerpt (html) SAGE Guidelines White Papers FAQ On Writing White Papers What are White Papers? IT Papers Writing White Papers for the US IT Market Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Open University. Design Principles for Web Layout (section four) Open University. Four Basic Principles of Visual Design Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design Graphic Design Rules Web Style Guide (see Chapters 2 and 4) Nielsen, Jakob. Usability 101 Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability National Cancer Institute. Web Usability Guidelines Wroblewski, Luke. Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization Design Eye for the Usability Guy Norman, Donald. The Life Cycle of a Technology. Usability Testing Usability Test Storyboard PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint Courses: Carol Siri Johnson, English 352 - Technical Writing Jim Kalmbach, English 249 - Introduction to Technical Writing Peg Dunkle, English 421 - Technical Writing
Rhetoric:
Plain Language: Plain Language.gov Govt Mandates comparisons standard advice headings Center for Plain Language Plain Conference Plain Language Network Plain Train SEC Plain English Handbook Revisiting Plain Language (article) White Papers: White Paper on White Papers (examples) Writing White Papers Preparing White Papers (CWRL) Blakesley excerpt (html) SAGE Guidelines White Papers FAQ On Writing White Papers What are White Papers? IT Papers Writing White Papers for the US IT Market Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Open University. Design Principles for Web Layout (section four) Open University. Four Basic Principles of Visual Design Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design Graphic Design Rules Web Style Guide (see Chapters 2 and 4) Nielsen, Jakob. Usability 101 Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability National Cancer Institute. Web Usability Guidelines Wroblewski, Luke. Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization Design Eye for the Usability Guy Norman, Donald. The Life Cycle of a Technology. Usability Testing Usability Test Storyboard PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint Courses: Carol Siri Johnson, English 352 - Technical Writing Jim Kalmbach, English 249 - Introduction to Technical Writing Peg Dunkle, English 421 - Technical Writing
Plain Language:
White Papers: White Paper on White Papers (examples) Writing White Papers Preparing White Papers (CWRL) Blakesley excerpt (html) SAGE Guidelines White Papers FAQ On Writing White Papers What are White Papers? IT Papers Writing White Papers for the US IT Market Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Open University. Design Principles for Web Layout (section four) Open University. Four Basic Principles of Visual Design Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design Graphic Design Rules Web Style Guide (see Chapters 2 and 4) Nielsen, Jakob. Usability 101 Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability National Cancer Institute. Web Usability Guidelines Wroblewski, Luke. Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization Design Eye for the Usability Guy Norman, Donald. The Life Cycle of a Technology. Usability Testing Usability Test Storyboard PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint Courses: Carol Siri Johnson, English 352 - Technical Writing Jim Kalmbach, English 249 - Introduction to Technical Writing Peg Dunkle, English 421 - Technical Writing
White Papers:
Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Open University. Design Principles for Web Layout (section four) Open University. Four Basic Principles of Visual Design Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design Graphic Design Rules Web Style Guide (see Chapters 2 and 4) Nielsen, Jakob. Usability 101 Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability National Cancer Institute. Web Usability Guidelines Wroblewski, Luke. Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization Design Eye for the Usability Guy Norman, Donald. The Life Cycle of a Technology. Usability Testing Usability Test Storyboard PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint Courses: Carol Siri Johnson, English 352 - Technical Writing Jim Kalmbach, English 249 - Introduction to Technical Writing Peg Dunkle, English 421 - Technical Writing
Web Design:
PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint Courses: Carol Siri Johnson, English 352 - Technical Writing Jim Kalmbach, English 249 - Introduction to Technical Writing Peg Dunkle, English 421 - Technical Writing
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