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Parkinson, M. (2018). A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint: best practices for master presenters. Association For Talent Development.
Read Chapter 3: “Storyboards for Faster Design.” This chapter includes tips for planning your presentation and a series of sample slides.
Read Chapter 4: “Render: PowerPoint Tips, Tricks, and Secrets.” This chapter includes tips on style and principles of design. The rendering style should be consistent with the audience, subject matter, and the emotions you want to elicit. Avoid amateur aesthetics and avoid making a bad first impression.
Read Chapter 5: “Render: Design Principles for Professional Slides.” This chapter is useful for accessing a hybrid of the traditional design elements and principles that are optimized for PowerPoint for professional presentations.

Reynolds, G. (2014) Presentation zen design, a simple visual approach to presenting in today’s world. (2nd ed). New Riders.
Read Chapter 1 (Design Matters), Chapter 2 (Presenting with Type), Chapter 3 (Communication with Color)
This resource includes an overview of design principles as applied to creating presentations. As the author outlines, after reading this book, you should be able to understand basic concepts of graphic design, create better visuals, and communicate better in your presentations.

Foulkes, L. (2020). Learn Microsoft Office 2019: A comprehensive guide to getting started with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook. Packt Publishing.
Read Chapter 3: “Creating Professional Documents.” This chapter explains that Word 2019 includes an array of features that aid in creating attractive and professional documents. This chapter will teach you how to add references such as citations, a table of contents, and a bibliography and perform a mail merge using different methods.
Read Chapter 5: “The PowerPoint Interface and Presentation Options.” This chapter teaches you how to personalize the Backstage view and set various options. You will navigate the interface and perform basic tasks, including creating, saving, printing, and viewing presentations in PowerPoint 2019.

Zhang, J., Xiao, C., & Watanabe, T. (2017). A framework for presentation slide design support. Proceedings of the International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis, 191–196.
This resource is important because the researchers review the problem of presentation design support and propose a design support system.

Moulton, S. T., Türkay, S., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2017). Does a presentation’s medium affect its message? PowerPoint, Prezi, and oral presentations. PloS One, 12(7), e0178774.
This resource is important because it explores the methodological challenges of media research and reviews past research on presentation formats.

Lowe, D. (2018). Powerpoint for dummies. For Dummies.
This resource provides an overview of PowerPoint and step-by-step guidance.