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After analyzing the example of effective visual aid, what should be considered when you

create your visual aid? Study the following tips.

✓ Choose a font style that your audience can Choosing a simple font style, such as Arial or Calibri,
read from a distance. helps to get your message across. Try to avoid using

font sizes smaller than 18 pt.

✓ Keep your text simple and minimize the Use bullets or short sentences; you want your audience
amount of text on your slides to listen to you present your information, rather than

read the screen. You can remove articles such as "a" and
"the" to help reduce the word count on a line.

✓ Use art to help convey your message. Use graphics to help tell your story. Don't overwhelm
your audience by adding too many graphics to a slide,

however.
✓ Make labels for charts and graphs Use only enough text to make label elements in a chart

understandable. or graph comprehensible.

✓ Make slide backgrounds subtle and keep Choose an appealing, consistent template or theme
them consistent. that is not too eye-catching. You don't want the

background or design to detract from your message.

✓ Use high contrast between background Themes automatically set the contrast between a light

color and text color. background with dark colored text or dark background
with light colored text.

Language Focus

Finding Key Ideas

A good visual aid can be made by using the key concept technique. Instead of including

the entire paragraph on the visual aid, we simply need to include the main concept.

Understanding what you read depends on identifying the key idea. It gives the details context
and meaning and offers a framework for retaining the information.

How do we find the key idea?

❖ Read the passage through completely, then try to identify the topic.

❖ Find the clues from the paragraph.
❖ After reading the passage thoroughly and find the clues, summarize it in your own

words in one sentence.

Paper Proposal Writing 101