Building PowerPoint Presentations

Tips Include limited content on each slide. Fill in details orally. Use slide show to augment presentation. Use graphics where appropriate. End each show with a closing slide.

Examples 1.Title Slide 2.Outline Slide 3.Content Slide

1. Title Slide Make your title simple, yet descriptive of the content

1. Title slide The Exploration of Natural Beauty in Three Poems by John Keats By R. Cooper

2. Outline Slide Use numbers or bullets. Point form is best. Give audience a sense of structure.

2. Keats and Natural Beauty The sensuality of Keats’s poems Keats’s poetry and beauty Keats’s poetry and truth

3. Content Slide Use minimum writing. 1. Help with structure 2. Interesting graphic material 3. Charts and graphs as needed Leave “white space.” Place material artistically on slide.

3. Content Slide THOU still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

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