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How To Create Effective Presentation

The document provides 10 rules for creating effective presentation slides: 1) Include only one idea per slide. 2) Spend no more than 1 minute discussing each slide. 3) Use the heading to state the main message and include supporting details. 4) Only include essential points that support the main message. 5) Properly cite sources and give credit. 6) Use graphics effectively to support points but avoid overloading slides. 7) Limit cognitive overload by keeping elements simple and consistent. 8) Design slides so the main point is clear even without explanation. 9) Iteratively improve through practice focusing on flow and key points. 10) Plan for technical issues by simplifying

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How To Create Effective Presentation

The document provides 10 rules for creating effective presentation slides: 1) Include only one idea per slide. 2) Spend no more than 1 minute discussing each slide. 3) Use the heading to state the main message and include supporting details. 4) Only include essential points that support the main message. 5) Properly cite sources and give credit. 6) Use graphics effectively to support points but avoid overloading slides. 7) Limit cognitive overload by keeping elements simple and consistent. 8) Design slides so the main point is clear even without explanation. 9) Iteratively improve through practice focusing on flow and key points. 10) Plan for technical issues by simplifying

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How to create effective

presentation?
“presentation slide”
Ten simple rules
• Rule 1: Include only one idea per slide
• Create separate slides for each piece of information content you introduce
—where the final slide has the entire diagram, and you use cropping or a
cover on duplicated slides that come before to hide what you are not yet
ready to include.
• Each slide in your deck truly presents one specific idea.
Rule 2: Spend only 1 minute per slide
• Present your slide in the talk, it should take 1 minute or less to discuss.
• Frequently giving your audience new information to feast on helps keep
them engaged.
• Get to a single message, clearly described, which takes less than 1 minute
to present.
Rule 3: Make use of your heading
• Use the heading of that slide to write exactly the message you are trying to
deliver.
• Think of the slide heading as the introductory or concluding sentence of a
paragraph
• The slide content the rest of the paragraph that supports the main point of
the paragraph.
Rule 4: Include only essential points
• Have a plan to explicitly identify and talk about it.
• Be sure to only put the shiny baubles on slides that you want them to
focus on.
• Include clear and concise slide design will go a long way in helping you
corral those easily distracted faculty members.
Rule 5: Give credit, where credit is due
• Adding citations, names of other researchers, or other types of credit, use
a consistent style and method for adding this information to your slides.
• It is an effective way to connect your audience with the personnel in the
lab who did the work, which is a great career booster for that person.
Rule 6: Use graphics effectively
• Never have slides that only contain text. Build your slides around good
visualizations.
• Don’t muddy the point of the slide by putting too many complex graphics
on a single slide.
• Use the graphics effectively is to make a point to introduce the figure and
its elements to the audience verbally, especially for data figures.
Rule 7: Design to avoid cognitive
overload
• The slide elements, the number of them, and how you present them all impact
the ability for the audience to intake, organize, and remember the content.
• Presentations are an exercise in listening, and not reading, do what you can to
optimize the ability of the audience to listen. Please keep the total number of
elements on the slide to 6 or less.
• In addition to the use of short text, white space, and the effective use of
graphics/images, you can improve ease of cognitive processing further by
considering color choices and font type and size.
Rule 8: Design the slide so that a distracted
person gets the main takeaway
• It’s important to look at your slide and ask “If they heard nothing I said,
will they understand the key concept of this slide?”
• With each slide, step back and ask whether its main conclusion is
conveyed, even if someone didn’t hear your accompanying dialog.
• Ask if the information on the slide is at the right level of abstraction.
Rule 9: Iteratively improve slide design
through practice
• The best way to ensure that you nailed slide design for your presentation is to
practice, typically a lot. Important aspects of practicing a new presentation, with
an eye toward slide design.
• (1) practice to ensure that you hit, each time through, the most important points
(for example, the text guide posts you left yourself and the title of the slide);
and (2) practice to ensure that as you conclude the end of one slide, it leads
directly to the next slide.
• Slide transitions, what you say as you end one slide and begin the next, are
important to keeping the flow of the “story.”
Rule 10: Design to mitigate the impact of
technical disasters
• Technical problems are routinely part of the practice of sharing your work through
presentations and design your slides to limit the impact certain kinds of technical
disasters create and also prepare alternate approaches.
• Save your presentation as a PDF.
• In using videos, create a backup slide with screen shots of key results.
• Avoid animations, such as figures or text that flash.
• Animations cause additional processing burdens for people with visual impairments
and create opportunities for technical disasters if the software on the host system is not
compatible with your planned animation.

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