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