Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields (Nathans-Kelly, T. and Nicometo, C.G.) [Book review]

This book focuses particularly on the needs for preparing presentations for engineering and technical topics and audiences. It is written in a constructive manner, with criticisms of default-structured practices tempered with an understanding of complexities of technical and engineering contexts. Readers from different audiences can also appreciate how the book is organized and presented in terms of a small number of slide rules. Reviews of literature compiled in chapters throughout the book include many theoretical and practical works relevant to advice on the communication of presentations. The bibliographies thus encompass a powerful curriculum of scholarship that educators or managers can also use to inform the preparation of technical or engineering presentations. The persuasiveness of the recommendations in this book are supported by the research covered and by the examples shown. The book also provides a roadmap for preparing slides in the context of slide software applications used prevalently among technical and engineering organizations.