What is a "good" slide?

So: what makes for a good slide in a PowerPoint presentation? Each slide should act as a supportive visual aid. It should prioritise clarity...

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More on slide decks

When creating a slide deck for - say - a conference presentation, we put ALL the references that we cite in our notes, on each slide; which ...

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More on effective slide decks

Following on from the last post ( here ) on putting slide decks together, I thought I would put a few tips together for writing academic pre...

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Effective PowerPoint slides

It is interesting how wrong we can get something as seemingly simple as creating a PowerPoint slide deck. A slide deck is - in my opinion - ...

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Criteria to compare journals

I have recently been talking to some people who are interested in establishing a journal. I was sent some journals links to explore as publi...

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Checking our writing is fit for purpose

I think most of us find academic writing a bit of a chore. We all need many hints, tips, rules and guides to help to improve the clarity, tr...

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A galactic outcome: 6 million words

Reflection: what is it good for? Well, long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I reached a milestone of 6 million words in my 750words ac...

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Short quotes from websites

A student asked me how to quote from a webpage, specifically to use a short quote to define a term from a government website, specifically: ...

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Two great pieces of advice

Earlier this year I read two great blog posts by two awesome academic writing experts. Professor Pat Thomson talked about 'propositional...

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Column word count in Excel

Recently I have been analysing survey data which has been extracted from an online survey instrument into an Excel sheet. The analysis has p...

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Four questions when using quotations

I was reading a post on the RLF Consultant Fellows blog recently, where it was said that our students often use quotations from academic rea...

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PowerPoint and the Business School lecturer

Coming, as I do, from a business school background, I was quite struck by an article I read on the Times Higher Education online earlier thi...

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Presentation word count

When we have to write a script for a presentation, it can be really difficult to know how may words we need to write to fill in the allowabl...

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Giving our power away

One regular piece of feedback I find I give my students is about giving their power away. This is, of course, based on the feedback I had fr...

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Cell word count in Excel

Most of my assessments for teaching are turned in online, using Moodle. Some of them are turned in using online forums, which I then extra...

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Still 750wording after all these years

I realised that I haven't mentioned my daily writing on 750words.com for a while. I have written about this before here , but to reca...

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Seminar Planning

I was writing a reply to a former colleague's inquiry recently about running seminars. He was going to be charging his clients to atte...

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Getting a Word count from a pdf 2

Last week I wrote a post about getting free online word count from Adobe Acrobat files. This week I have tried some software that suppos...

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Getting a Word count from a pdf 1

Each semester I take a word count of student research reports and articles, and cross tab the various section counts with the final grades...

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