Professor
Department
of Technical Communication
University
of Washington
farkas@u.washington.edu
“Managing Three Mediation Effects that Influence PowerPoint Deck Authoring,” forthcoming, Technical Communication, May 2009. This manuscript may be revised before publication.
“A Heuristic for Reasoning about PowerPoint Deck Design,” forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 2008 International Professional Communication Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 13-16.
"Effective Presentations with PowerPoint: 24 Suggestions," slides annotated in notes pane, guest talk for UW Department of Communication graduate students, October 17, 2007.
"Toward a Better Understanding of PowerPoint Deck Design,"IDJ+DD (Information Design Journal + Document Design), volume 14 (2), August 2006, pp. 162-71.
Review of Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points, in Technical Communication 52 (4), November 2005, pp. 465-67.
"Understanding and Using PowerPoint,"STC Annual Conference Proceedings, May 8-11, 2005, pp. 313-320.
"Explicit Structure of Print and On-Screen Documents," Technical Communication Quarterly, 14 (1), 2005, pp. 9-30.