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Lecture 4 Presentations-Tips

This document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations, covering aspects such as outlines, slide structure, fonts, colors, backgrounds, graphs, spelling, grammar, and conclusions. It emphasizes the importance of clarity, simplicity, and consistency in design to enhance audience engagement and understanding. Additionally, it suggests concluding with a question slide to encourage audience interaction.

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Lecture 4 Presentations-Tips

This document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations, covering aspects such as outlines, slide structure, fonts, colors, backgrounds, graphs, spelling, grammar, and conclusions. It emphasizes the importance of clarity, simplicity, and consistency in design to enhance audience engagement and understanding. Additionally, it suggests concluding with a question slide to encourage audience interaction.

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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

Outline Slide Structure – Good

 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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Slide Structure - Bad Slide Structure – Good

 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.

Slide Structure - Bad Fonts - Good

 Do not use distracting animation  Use at least an 18-point font


 Use different size fonts for main points and
 Do not go overboard with the animation secondary points
– this font is 24-point, the main point font is 28-point,
 Be consistent with the animation that you use and the title font is 36-point
 Use a standard font like Times New Roman or
Arial

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Fonts - Bad Colour - Good


 If you use a small font, your audience won’t be able to read what you have written
 Use a colour of font that contrasts sharply with
 CAPITALIZE ONLY WHEN NECESSARY. IT the background
IS DIFFICULT TO READ – Ex: blue font on white background
 Use colour to reinforce the logic of your
structure
 Don’t use a complicated font
– Ex: light blue title and dark blue text
 Use colour to emphasize a point
– But only use this occasionally

Colour - Bad Background - Good

 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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Background – Bad Graphs - Good

 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

 Always title your graphs

Graphs - Bad Graphs - Good


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Blue Balls 20.4 27.4 90 20.4
80
Red Balls 30.6 38.6 34.6 31.6
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Blue Balls
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Red Balls
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Graphs - Bad Graphs - Bad


100

90
90  Minor gridlines are unnecessary
80  Font is too small
70
 Colours are illogical
60

50
Blue Balls
Red Balls
 Title is missing
40
38.6
34.6
 Shading is distracting
30.6 31.6
30 27.4

20.4 20.4
20

10

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Spelling and Grammar Conclusion

 Proof your slides for:  Use an effective and strong closing


– speling mistakes – Your audience is likely to remember your last words
– the use of of repeated words
– grammatical errors you might have make  Use a conclusion slide to:
– Summarize the main points of your presentation
 If English is not your first language, please – Suggest future avenues of research
have someone else check your presentation!

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Questions??

 End your presentation with a simple question


slide to:
– Invite your audience to ask questions
– Provide a visual aid during question period
– Avoid ending a presentation abruptly

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