Try not to use PPT animation effect.
1. Many cool PPT on the Internet are mostly made with P-diagram software combined with very complex animation effects, but academic PPT lies in the display of content rather than form, and the use of animation effects will not add points to your display;
When there are experts and scholars in the audience, they may not have the patience to listen to your word-for-word explanation. They may just look up at your PPT, grab an overview, and then think about other issues. So if you use the animation effect of squeezing toothpaste, they will feel bored;
Academic reports need to show all your works to everyone, including every point of view, every picture and so on. Animation effect will inevitably produce occlusion, coverage and fuzzy effect, which is not conducive to the effective transmission of information.
4. Question session, when playing back PPT, the animation effect will be played back again, which is very time-consuming.
Pay attention to details.
1. Every logical link (including every small chapter, every PPT page and every chart) should be self-evident. Just don't need any additional language explanation, all the information in this link is clear, rigorous and complete. In short, try to give your PPT to a colleague in an industry, and he can know everything you want to express without discussing it with you.
2. Please check the chart: title, horizontal and vertical coordinates, legend and unit.
3. Academic norms: instead of your own drawings, tables, data and opinions, you should add references in appropriate places.
4. Font size and color matching must be clearly visible, and then consider aesthetic issues.
5. Each sentence should not exceed 20 words, and each page should not exceed 10 lines.
6. Not commonly used PPT abbreviations in English and Chinese for the first time, indicating the full name of explanation.
7. If Chinese is displayed, the chart can bring its own English, but it is best not to mix Chinese and English.
8. Check whether all video and sound files can be played normally.
9. Check for typos.
Logical clarity
This has been mentioned by many people, and it is really important. But how to do this, it is useless for you to just stare at PPT. Remember, PPT is used to assist you in your speech. Therefore, if PPT wants to be logically clear, the premise is that the ideas you show should be clear, so PPT should strictly follow the ideas you show.
As mentioned before, logical clarity is based on the format of your paper, but many people write their papers clearly, so they can't speak. So I recommend that for important exhibitions, you can try to write a verbatim draft, that is, write down everything you have to say, including "Hello everyone", "Thank you" and "Look at this chart". Then rehearse the manuscript word for word for more than five times, and revise all the awkward and difficult places. In fact, this is a good way to correct the thinking of speech. Wait until the speech is clear, then rehearse PPT repeatedly, and check all the useless information, neglected information and poorly spoken information. This process will be quick.
notice the time
This is also very important, and it is a key element to reflect the quality of the report. Therefore, when making PPT, we must combine the methods in the previous article to achieve the unification of the draft by heart, word for word, PPT and speech. Don't feel imprecise after finalizing PPT, and add a bunch of things repeatedly, which will eventually lead to logical confusion and overtime speech.