CHAPTER 8

USING
VISUAL AIDS

KINDS OF VISUAL AIDS

1. Objects
2. Models
• An object, usually built to scale, that represents another
object in detail
3. Photographs
4. Drawings
5. Graphs
• A visual aid used to show statistical trends and patterns
• The most common types are:
• Line graph
• Pie graph
• Bar graph
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6. Charts
7. Transparencies
• A visual aid drawn, written, or printed on a sheet of
clear acetate and shown with an overhead projector
8. Video
9. Multimedia presentations
• A speech that combines several kinds of visual and/or
audio aids in the same talk
10. The speaker

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GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING VISUAL AIDS

• Prepare visual aids in advance

• Keep visual aids simple
• Make sure visual aids are large enough
• Use fonts that easy to read
• Use a limited number of fonts
• Use color effectively

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTING VISUAL AIDS

• Avoid using the whiteboard

• Display visual aids where listeners can see them
• Avoid passing visual aids among the audience
• Display visual aids only while discussing them
• Talk to your audience, not to your visual aid
• Explain visual aids clearly and concisely
• Practice with your visual aids