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Lecture 6:How to make an effective Presentation

English for Electrical Engineers

Fall 2014Reza Mohammadkhani

University of Kurdistan

http://eng.uok.ac.ir/mohammadkhani

Making An Effective Presentation2

� Planning Content

� Choosing Slide Structure

� Displaying Text

� Displaying Graphs

� Animating

� Presenting

Planning Content3

� Think about possible audience questions

� Think about your subject and organise your talk from large to small

� Explain your method(s)

� Explain your data

� Conclude it

Slide Structure4

Choosing Slide Structure5

� Choose appropriate template

� Slide Master

� Format

� Background

� Slide Layout

� Font

� …

Font6

� Clear Font Type and Size

� Choose a font style/size that your audience can read from a distance.

Example: Font Size & Style7

Font Size & Type8

� This is Arial 12

� This is Arial 18

� This is Arial 24

� This is Arial 32

� This is Arial 36

�This is Arial 44

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Displaying Text10

Displaying Text11

� Use bullets

� Use short phrases

� Use grammatical parallelism

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Displaying Visuals14

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Falling Leaves16

Falling Leaves17

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January March May July September November

GoaMumbaiDelhi

Much Simpler

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Animating19

Animation20

� Use animations to help audience understand your message

Animation Example21

This transition is annoying,

not enhancing

This transition is Fine.

Presenting22

Presenting23

� Adapt to Physical, Cultural Environment

� Stance� Body language

� Handling notes

� Gestures

� Eye contact

� Voice quality� Volume

� Inflection

� Pace

Keep In Mind 24

� Communication is the key

� Text to support the communication

� Pictures to simplify complex concepts

� Animations for complex relationships

� Visuals to support, not to distract

� Sounds only when absolutely necessary

Example25

EXCITED

By

Animations, sound

and

Clip art

In PowerPoint?

You

Are

A Bad ppt Slide

Adapted from S. Taylor

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References 28

� Course webpage at: http://eng.uok.ac.ir/mohammadkhani/courses/English_93_1.html

� Course pages by Dr H. Bevrani at: www.bevrani.com

� Satyajeet Singh, Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations. Available at: https://www.nursing.arizona.edu/PDF/how-to-

make-effective-presentation.ppt

� Using PowerPoint to Design Effective Presentations, available online at: www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/presenting.ppt

� Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations, available online at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/686/01/