What is a good

presentation

Ashwani Kumar Soni

PhD IITD
Associate Professor (Civil Engineering)
COAE&T, PAU Ludhiana, Punjab India
ashwanisoni@pau.edu, ashwanisoni@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/ashwanisoni
 Topics
• Content slide
• Case
– Example slide Bad slide
– Corrected slide
• Paragraphs
• Slide title Good slide
• Diagrams
• References format
• Contrast
• key points

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 Content slide
Error 1 : Content slide is missing
What is the problem ?
– Viewer does not get the picture
Solution
Use content slide

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 Case

Error 2 : All letters are typed in capitals

• What is the problem ?
• Text is difficult to read
Solution
• Avoid all caps
• Use sentence case
Next two slides are examples of use of improper and
proper case
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 WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING
??
 INCREASE IN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF THE EARTH- LONG TIME
PERIOD
 NATURAL EVENT, BUT MAJORLY CONTRIBUTED BY HUMANS.
 THE QUALITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE HAS DEPLETED OVER THE YEARS.
 EARTH'S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE HAS RISEN BY 1.4°F OVER THE PAST
CENTURY, AND IS PROJECTED TO RISE ANOTHER 2 TO 11.5°F OVER THE
NEXT HUNDRED YEARS.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/
Bad slide
 What is global warming ??
 Increase in the average temperature of the earth- long
time period
 Natural event, but majorly contributed by humans
 The quality of the atmosphere has depleted over the years
 Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the
past century
 Projected to rise another 2 to 11.5°F over the next
hundred years

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/
Good
slide
 Paragraphs and Sentences

Error 3 : use of paragraphs and sentences

• What is the problem ?
– Too much Text
– is difficult to read or viewers start reading and
not pay attention to presenter
Solution
• Do not use paragraphs
• Use Bullets or numbered lists
Next two slides are examples of use of paragraphs and bullets
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Introduction
Climate, whether of the earth as a
The greenhouse effect is a natural
whole or of a single country or
process that plays
location, is often described as the
a major part in shaping the
synthesis of weather recorded over a
earth’s climate. It produces
long period of time. It is defined in
the relatively warm and
terms of long-term averages
hospitable environment
and other statistics of weather
near the earth’s surface where
conditions, including the frequencies
humans and
of extreme events. Climate is far
other life-forms have been able to
from static. Just as weather patterns
develop and
change from day to day, the climate
prosper. It is one of a large
changes too, over a range of time
number of physical,
frames from years, decades and
chemical and biological
centuries to millennia, and on the
processes that combine
longer time-scales
and interact to determine the
earth’s climate

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 Introduction
• Greenhouse effect
– natural process
– plays a major part in shaping the earth’s climate
– warm and hospitable environment near the earth’s
surface where humans
• Climate
– long-term averages and other statistics of weather
conditions

Good
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 Slide title

Error 3 : Slide title is missing

• What is the problem ?
– Connectivity and continuity is lost
Solution
• Always use Slide with a title

Next two slides are examples of slides with and without

of slide title

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 Bad slide
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 Impacts of global warming

Good
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 Scanned photographs /diagrams

Error 4 : Use of Scanned diagrams

• What is the problem ?
– Difficult to read and comprehend
Solution
• Use good quality diagrams

Next two slides are examples of use bad and good quality
diagrams
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Acid rain can kill
the decomposers
in soil.

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 Decomposers in soil

Good
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 References
Error 5 : use of incorrect reference or no
reference
• What is the problem ?
– Without proper references or using no reference,
authenticity of the presentation is doubted
Solution
• Give reference in proper format
Next two slides are examples of improper and proper
references
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 Sources
http://www.larryjzimmerman.com/wproblems/warming/greenhouse.gif
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/pluto/statistics.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/venus/statistics.html
http://plaza.ufl.edu/knhuang/project2/cause.html
(http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html )
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/uses/residence.html
http://www.epa.gov/nitrousoxide/scientific.html
www.stuffintheair.com/global-energy-balance.html
www.stuffintheair.com/global-energy-balance.html

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 Sources
Slide
No References
1 larryjzimmerman.com/wproblems/warming/greenhouse.gif
2,3 windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/pluto/statistics.html
4 -
5 -
6 plaza.ufl.edu/knhuang/project2/cause.html
7 quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html
8 eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/uses/residence.html
9 epa.gov/nitrousoxide/scientific.html
10,11 stuffintheair.com/global-energy-balance.html

Good
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 Contrast
• This is best contrast

• This is best contrast

• This is good contrast

• This is bad contrast

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 Key points
• Font for slides is sans serif and is between 36-44
– Sans sarif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
• Font size for subtitles is between 28 to 34
• Slides to be arranged according to sub-topics
• Text should be less in the slide as far as possible.
• Picture/images are not pixelated and cover entire
available space on the slide leaving only margins
• Reference has been given on every slide and in the
reference slides
• Round numbers up to the nearest whole number where
possible
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