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Presentation: Intro General Tips Simple Heavy

Presentation
    You made it this far, it is the home stretch... unless you didn't have to write the paper in which case this
will be even easier. In any presentation, you must remember one important detail, your audience. Using
obtuse prose will bore or confound your audience while oversimplifying everything will bore or insult
your audience. So you must decide what type of presentation you want to deliver.


General Tips
- Use powerpoint, only use a board when projectors are not available, this keeps the audience interests
- Avoid walls of text, no one will read it and you shouldn't either (there is a minor exception, see Heavy section)
- Use graphics and try injecting a little humor if you think the professor is ok with it as attention grabbing is your job
- Keep the background lighter than the text and make sure that the text is fully visible
- Do not make he background more interesting than the subject if possible and do not use pictures as backgrounds,
   they just don't ever work nicely
- Use quick transitions, or none at all
- Know your material, no reading of the screen
- Avoid using sounds, some are unpredictable and may hurt or suprise people in a negative way
- If using videos, use a short one that adds to your presentation, not redo it for you
- Use basic art skills like matching primary colors to their secondary colors like orange to blue or purple to yellow.
- Maintain eye contact, once you can keep that without discomfort, you can make mistakes but it won't bother
   you as much


Simple
This a basic presentation. No big words, plenty of flash. Key is to keep it brief and interesting. Recomended for 100
level courses like my sex ed presentation. (I'm giving you the whole thing but do me and you a favor. Download it t
hen view it using Microsoft Powerpoint, otherwise it will look wonky.)
- Don't overdo animations, an exception if you have a lot, is give your lecture, then go over it real quick while the
   animations play like in the sample above
- Highlight how this can affect the audience, as in my example, how to identify symptoms and prevention
- Look at the diagnosis slide, that is an example of a slide can have something to complicated, look at the last slide,
   that is example of how a slide can oversimplify a topic, though a good speaker can compensate for that


Heavy
This is an advanced presentation. You use plenty of graphs and you better be prepared to explain them in detail. Here
are a few sample slides I have.
- Avoid using animations, or I you do, limit it to one a slide at most
- walls of text are allowed as long as you don't read them, because many times someone will get curious about specific
  details and numbers and having them handy is great as seen in slide 4 and 6
- Sometimes words are unnecessary, using tables and graphs are all you need to explain or argue your point, professors
   seem to love it when you do that often as it seems like you know what you are talking about (just make sure you know
   what you are talking about or you are gonna fail hard)
- Humor goes along way (slide 3 and 7)



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