Well, and not only pay for the booklet/pamphlet but it's not free postage all the way to Canada - another $5 U.S. However, with such high praise and recommendations from my esteemed colleagues, I've ordered it anyway. I think it will be useful for those economics students! Wendy Wendy Strachan PhD. Director, Centre for Writing-Intensive Learning Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Office: AQ 6205 Tel: 604-291-3122 Fax: 604-268-6915 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.sfu.ca/cwil -----Original Message----- From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Marcy Bauman Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:55 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Recommended reading Well, I'm rather cheesed off that he wants $7 for the essay . . . (pamphleteering is *SO* 20th century!) If he wanted to speak to Digital Natives, he'd have been better off to give it away . . . Grumble, grumble, Marcy --On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:46 PM -0500 Mary-Louise Craven <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Jamie...I couldn't agree more with your assessment. This piece of > Tufte's writing is on my course required reading list this year! He's > on my all-time-great-writers/illustrators list. > mary-louise > > > Jamie MacKinnon wrote: > > > > Hello chatelain(e)s, > > > > I can't recommend highly enough Edward Tufte's The Cognitive Style of > > PowerPoint (Graphics Press, 2003, www.edwardtufte.com > > <http://www.edwardtufte.com> ). It is a concise (28-page) critique of > > PowerPoint technology. It will be of interest, I think, to anyone > > interested in the medium / technology, as well as to anyone interested > > in the power of pamphleteering. > > > > It confirmed my prejudices, but I **still** liked it. > > > > (Chatelain(e)s are people who live in caslls.) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jamie MacKinnon > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -- > Mary-Louise Craven > York University > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Marcy Bauman Media Consultant College of Pharmacy University of Michigan 734-647-2227 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-