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The Outline


After your title slide, a summary of what you're going to present will give your audience a context for the information that follows. There's nothing worse than sitting in a presentation and wondering what the presenter is talking about - if you tell your audience to start with what you're presentation is all about you're more likely to keep them engaged.

The outline slide should be a summary that highlights the main sections of your presentation to follow.  It can be as simple as:

Simple outline example


Exercise
Have a look at these Outline slides from presentations - can you identify good and not-so-good elements in each?
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