Lecture 4 Presentations-Tips
Lecture 4 Presentations-Tips
Tips to be Covered
Making PowerPoint Slides
Outlines
Slide Structure
Fonts
Avoiding the Pitfalls Colour
of Bad Slides Background
Graphs
Spelling and Grammar
Conclusions
Questions
Make your 1st or 2nd slide an outline of your Use 1-2 slides per minute of your presentation
presentation Write in point form, not complete sentences
– Ex: previous slide Include 4-5 points per slide
Follow the order of your outline for the rest of Avoid wordiness: use key words and phrases
the presentation only
Only place main points on the outline slide
– Ex: Use the titles of each slide as main points
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This page contains too many words for a Show one point at a time:
presentation slide. It is not written in point – Will help audience concentrate on what you are
form, making it difficult both for your audience saying
to read and for you to present each point. – Will prevent audience from reading ahead
Although there are exactly the same number of
– Will help you keep your presentation focused
points on this slide as the previous slide, it
looks much more complicated. In short, your
audience will spend too much time trying to
read this paragraph instead of listening to you.
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Using a font colour that does not contrast with Use backgrounds such as this one that are
the background colour is hard to read attractive but simple
Using colour for decoration is distracting and
annoying.
Use backgrounds which are light
Using a different colour for each point is
unnecessary
– Using a different colour for secondary points is also Use the same background consistently
unnecessary throughout your presentation
Trying to be creative can also be bad
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Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or Use graphs rather than just charts and words
difficult to read from – Data in graphs is easier to comprehend & retain
Always be consistent with the background that than is raw data
you use – Trends are easier to visualize in graph form
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Blue Balls 20.4 27.4 90 20.4
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Red Balls 30.6 38.6 34.6 31.6
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Red Balls
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90 Minor gridlines are unnecessary
80 Font is too small
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Colours are illogical
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Red Balls
Title is missing
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Shading is distracting
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