Academic Presentation Slides - improve your PPT slides.

How to improve your PPT slides for an academic presentation at university. It discusses design, fonts, structure, animation, pictures, graphs, and referencing.
Disclaimer: This presentation is just a basic 'overall' guide and there are many different ways to present your slides. However, I have graded over 1000 academic presentations and following some of these ideas is good advice especially to improve audience engagement.
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[@tanyang6555]

Thank you very much. the video is very clear and handy with the basic but necessary guidance. I was sitting in the classroom for 2 hours and was still not clear how to create the PowerPoint, but now have a better understanding after watching the video. Thanks again.

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Hi, thank you for the positive feedback. I always teach this lesson to my academic students. It's simple and logical. It covers all their questions and summarises what some tutors take hours to explain. :)

[@nenda86]

A rule of thumb any presentation should not make any sense until you explain it.

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Yes! I completely agree. If I understand it from your slides, there is no need for you to explain it to me. Great comment!

[@samanthapeters8314]

Thank you. This video has everything I needed to know about PowerPoint presentations.

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment ✅

[@orlaspring363]

Helpful. I wonder how to get that graph/table animation to work, where it doesn't come in for a bit, shows up, then goes back to the bulleted list. Anyone?

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Sorry bit late with reply :(. I used PowerPoint animation for this - appear and exit effects. You can control the setting through the 'animation panel'.

[@lung-huahu8895]

Thank you. Very basic yet clear information.

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Thanks for your comment ✅

[@PeterPeter-yw2hl]

a great example of how an academic presentation totally kills the presentation with too much crap

[@orlaspring363]

I hate them but increasingly, professors ask for slide presentations (with copious speaker notes) in place of essays. Ugh.

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Unfortunately, this what you should do to do well in university academic English assessments.

[@GreenGainsGaming]

Nice! Thankyou for the video I’ll be recommending this to my group project partners from now on 😆

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Excellent, thank you!

[@exploringbiblicalendtimes779]

thanks for this video. It is really important and helpful

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Glad it was helpful! ✅

[@malcolmfarrell1716]

Thank you very much for that! Your presentation was educational for me and I really enjoyed watching it. :)

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Thank you for your comment. So glad it was helpful! ✅

[@dr.tranngocthien]

Thank you for you tips

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

My pleasure 😊 Thanks for the feedback

[@hemabalamurugan2815]

Tq nice course

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

You're welcome!

[@monikakashyap1002]

Well explained

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Thanks ✅

[@suganthanramakrishnan4360]

thank you for the useful guideline video. I was get a idea about the presentation. It should be help to do my college presentation.

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

You're welcome!

[@sahzamirfatemi3673]

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[@AcademicEnglishUK]

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[@hikikomorihachiman7491]

Thank you

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[@kasianowicka1403]

Thank you very much for that!

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

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[@felixhautzinger4527]

That was clear. Thank you

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

My pleasure!

[@itz-darya97]

Very helpful. Thanks a lot

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Glad it was helpful!

[@snowron7497]

Nice course very helpful, Thank you !

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Glad it was helpful!

[@EnglishRich]

I respectfully disagree with much of the advice in this video. Thanks for the inspiration, though!

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

Hi, thanks for your comment. The video is designed to give International students a basic background to a formal presentation at university. The main focus is key points, references and clear transitions.

[@EnglishRich]

@@AcademicEnglishUK Hey, I *should* have mentioned, I respectfully agree with *most* of the advice. But I do disagree with much of it.
For example, one slide for 1-2 minutes of speaking... I would go much lower on the slides. You can give a great 15 minute presentation with just 3 slides - in-fact the very best presentations have no slides; but sometimes you just really need a photo of a rocket or something, it's OK! Also, Times New Roman is, in my humble opinion, not a great font to use these days. It looks too 1998. I would stick with Tahoma, Cambria, Calibri or Source Sans Pro. Arial, if you really must... These are just my opinions.
I also teach EAP to international students and I'm teaching a PSE Course right at this moment and we've been hammering this stuff for the past two weeks in prep for the assessed individual presentations - but, I respectfully acknowledge it's got to be "horses for courses".

[@controversy6056]

I'm tired of IUM but I won't quit

[@maxwellekeh8293]

Yh thanks

[@AcademicEnglishUK]

The harder the battle the greater the victory ✅