Example of an Introduction: Invasive Plant Species
The above introduction exhibits the following characteristics:

  1. White shadow may be distracting/difficult to read
  2. Amalgamate the first two points
  3. Amalgamate the last two points
  4. Not much information on the slide - combine with another or expand details.
The above introduction exhibits the following characteristics:

  1. Could use "What are Alien Invasive Plants?" as the title to the slide and replace "Introduction"
  2. Good use of bullet points: will act as a prompt rather than text to be read. Gives the audience something to read without being distracting
  3. Good contrast between background colour and text but a PowerPoint template would add extra colour as well a border/pattern.
The above introduction exhibits the following characteristics:

  1. Good use of italics with botanical name
  2. Use italics for Latin names "(Bombus)"
  3. Too much text for the space available. Reduce text or photograph size
  4. Excellent use of car and person to demonstrate the height of the plant. May be better as a separate slide.
The above introduction exhibits the following characteristics:

  1. Need to be consistent in terms of text size with the other slides
  2. Could rephrase the Chittka point, starting with the quote and have the reference at the end
  3. Good to discuss good as well as bad points - give a balanced opinion
  4. Slide has a lot of text - should use bullet-points and talk round them.
The above introduction exhibits the following characteristics:

  1. Good use of Italics in heading and description
  2. Use italics for all Latin names
  3. Slide has a lot of text - should use bullet points and talk round them
  4. Excellent use of photograph - be aware of how much room it takes up on the slide.
The above introduction exhibits the following characteristics:

  1. Title could be more descriptive - Research Aims
  2. Slide is very text heavy - try using bullet points and condensing the text to a few words you can talk around.

Always try to ensure your slides remain consistent. In the above example, the size of the text changes according to the slide. The Lythrum salicaria slide should be followed by 'Effects of Lythrum salicaria', in keeping with the previous slides on Impatians.