1. Do’s and Don’ts of PowerPoint Presentations
English 105
Northern Arizona University

2. Overview DO provide an overview page Slide Content Slide Design
Presentation Strategies

3. Slide Content
Don’t put too much text on one slide. It’s overwhelming for your audience, and can lead to you reading the slides instead of presenting information and using the slide only as an aid. In general avoid using complete sentences. If there’s too much text, the audience will concentrate on reading the text rather than listening to you speak. And, they probably won’t even be able to read everything before you get done with that slide and move on to the next one.

4. Slide Content Too much text Too little text
DO focus on one topic per slide

5. Slide Design Consistency is the key!
DON’T use multiple slide designs in one presentation
Why?

6. Slide Design DO consider your audience Choose an appropriate design
Choose appropriate colors
Choose appropriate visuals

7. Slide Design Use animations Sparingly Only when you want your audience
To focus
On 1 point at a time
And you’re going to expand on each point
Before moving on to the next

8. Slide Design DO choose appropriate fonts & colors Tone of font
Size & weight
Colors are readable
Be consistent
Within one slide
Across slides

9. Presentation Strategies
DON’T
Read from slides
Stare at screen DO
Use slides only as an aid
Make eye contact with the audience

10. Presentation Strategies
DO have a concluding slide
Thank you.
Are there any questions?