Some mistakes easily made by novices - 1

Hi, everyone. Today’s topic is the beginning of a series called’ Some mistakes easily made by novices. We’ll go through two of them in today’s post. Then…let’s get started!

When making your first PowerPoint presentation, you may consider it important to let all the audiences know what you’re talking about. So, you may feel quite grateful to Lawrence G. Tesler, the inventor of  ‘copy and paste’ ,and try to copy the whole paragraph, like this:

DO NOT do this! First, plagiarizing other’s words is wrong. Second, it won’t let you have better understandings about the topic. Third, a page tucked with words can definitely exhaust the audiences.

It’s proper to list the highlights of the paragraph on your own. Using boldface to emphasize is also acceptable, like this:

Sometimes, we may want to insert a picture in our presentation to make it more convincing, humorous, or imaginable. It is quite convenient that PowerPoint can help you to make animations of chosen items. Moreover, you can even draw the path of item movement on your own! But, please never draw a path like this:

It seems very trivial, isn’t it? When you are designing animations, don’t forget to simplify their paths. That is, try to avoid making any unnecessary turns or circulations. If can, adjust the animation speed to your speech will make your presentation even better. There’s an example below:

This is the end of this week’s post. There’re still some basic concepts to know. I’ve tried to make the post more interesting and meaningful. If there’re still conspicuous defects or deficiency in the post, please give me feedbacks to let me know.

Thanks for your attention to read through the post. Hope you all enjoy it!