Let's talk about the general idea of doing a good PPT defense first.
PPT presentations on different occasions have different purposes. For the mid-term defense of the master's thesis, the purpose is to let the teachers of the research group check the progress of the graduate thesis, with the emphasis on whether the thesis can be completed. Therefore, the purpose of the exhibition is to report the completed scientific research work.
In order to achieve this goal, we must first make the necessary preparations: explain the research objectives of the research topic. Clear the research objectives, then naturally leads to the research plan and content, the content is the work to be done, and the workload to be completed should be compared with the expected plan.
After the above preparations, the next step is the focus of the exhibition-the completed research work, and the basic display form is "what work has been done and what results have been achieved". Because the defense judges have limited knowledge of postgraduate topics, they may not be able to grasp the substantive results of many tasks, so it is necessary to summarize the results. Explain what to do in the follow-up to the phased achievements and unresolved problems. In this way, you can fully show your mid-term results.
Sort out the main points of the exhibition:
Interim defense, in addition to PPT, you need to submit an interim report. What most people do is to write a report first, and then extract the content from the report and make it PPT. The problem with this method is that:
In the opening defense and mid-term defense, the author uses reverse thinking: do PPT first, then write the report. When preparing for the mid-term defense, PPT design took 12 hours, and 19 page report document only took 2 hours.
How to complete a 19 page report in two hours? To put it bluntly, the report is not important, just fool around. Treat the report as a PPT instruction: extract the content from PPT, explain it and organize it into a document.
The above is the overall concept, and the specific PPT design method is introduced below.
In work and scientific research, the production of PPT is a normal job. What you often have to do is to have your own routines and templates, so that you can do it quickly and well. The PPT masters I have met often polish and form PPT templates suitable for their own styles in the early stage, and the subsequent PPT designs all use a unified style, so that the production efficiency of PPT is extremely high and the effect is also very good.
After designing PPT many times last year, the author also formed his own basic template, which mainly includes three parts:
The text area of the content page has a multi-level title format, which can express multi-level information:
On the basis of such a basic template, all kinds of information can be clearly expressed through appropriate content layout.
In terms of content display, personal views have always been:
In the presentation of PPT, the graphic expression is the most convincing. My own visualization methods used in PPT for mid-term defense mainly include:
In order to express the size specification of the sample, BIM technology is used to draw the model diagram:
It is difficult to explain a complex research plan in words and language. If the flow chart is adopted, it will be much clearer:
Such a flowchart directly combines table tools and basic graphics in PPT.
The achievements of scientific and engineering research are expressed by data, which visually expresses the changing trend and quantitative relationship through various images.
What is shown here is the basic data image, and the drawing tools are mainly;
In a formal speech, we should pay attention to the font size setting of the text in the image and consider whether the audience can see it clearly.
In this defense, the legend is not clearly marked.
Non-data flow and relationship expression are often composed of drawing modules that come with PPT.
In order to express the development of a process, a timeline is used. For example, the corrosion process demonstration of reinforced concrete studied by the author:
This way of presentation is clear at a glance, needless to say. The above picture was drawn by Visio software.
On this basis, relevant test photos are added, and the effect is clearer.
How to display the content of plain text? As long as these words have a logical hierarchical relationship, then the mind map is a very convenient expression:
For the drawing method of mind map, see: Software Skills | Application Summary of Mind Map.
If a page of PPT inevitably needs to display multiple layers of information, then paging process can be used to display it.
For example, the description of the three stages of the corrosion process:
This page contains three important pieces of information, so it can be divided into three pages:
It's a very good choice to bring a laser pointer for demonstration.
If you are an ultrabook computer, you'd better bring your own conversion cable for HDMI connection so as to connect the projector.
In order to avoid forgetting words in your speech, you can use the speaker's notes as an aid.
The language of this defense is not fluent enough, and there are still many problems to be improved:
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