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CMN201 Week4 Assignment KennethTarr

This document discusses different types of presentation aids such as PowerPoint presentations, charts, pictures, and graphs. PowerPoint presentations can include a lot of information but can also distract audiences if overloaded. Charts should be simple and easy to understand, but presenting multiple charts allows audiences to follow a progression. Images can represent topics but audiences may become fixated on them and tune out the speaker. For a speech about life as a carnival worker after hours, images would provide understanding since audiences cannot see the grounds. Experience as a carnival manager enabled effective public speaking on this topic.

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CMN201 Week4 Assignment KennethTarr

This document discusses different types of presentation aids such as PowerPoint presentations, charts, pictures, and graphs. PowerPoint presentations can include a lot of information but can also distract audiences if overloaded. Charts should be simple and easy to understand, but presenting multiple charts allows audiences to follow a progression. Images can represent topics but audiences may become fixated on them and tune out the speaker. For a speech about life as a carnival worker after hours, images would provide understanding since audiences cannot see the grounds. Experience as a carnival manager enabled effective public speaking on this topic.

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Kenneth Tarr

8/2/2019
CMN201
Using Presentation Aids

What are presentation aids and are they worth using all the time? I will be discussing the

different types of presentation aids such as PowerPoint presentations, charts, pictures, and

graphs. Also, I will be discussing what I learned about each one and how I would incorporate one

into the speech that I gave last week.

First, we have the PowerPoint presentation. A PowerPoint presentation can incorporate a

lot of information into a fancy showcase by changing slides as the speaker moves along through

their speech or can be used by themselves. During a speech they can become distracting to the

audience. Also, a PowerPoint presentation can be overloaded with information which in turn can

cause the speaker to lose the audience. At the same time a PowerPoint presentation can have just

the right amount of information to show the right information at the right time to accent what the

speaker is saying. Next, I will be discussing charts.

The second type of visual aid I will be discussing are charts. A chart can be informative

yet at the same time overwhelming. A chart should be simple and easy to read and understand.

Sometimes a speaker may try to pack too much information into a chart, and this can distract the

audience from what the speaker is trying to say. This is better used with multiple charts to show a

progression and the speaker talks about what each chart means, as they are going through them.

This would be the most effective use of a chart, as the audience can follow along with what the

speaker is describing within the multiple charts and how they relate to each other. Charts and

graphs are similar to each other and can be used interchangeably with each other. Next, I will be

talking about images and how they can be effective.


Lastly, we have images. This includes pictures, or even physical representations of what

the speaker is talking about. These can be effective as it gives the audience either an image that

represents the speaker’s topic and what they are currently talking about. As well as, a physical

representation can have an impact as it is something tangible that the audience can see the

speaker physically holding while talking about it. A downfall to this is that the audience can

become fixated on the image or physical representation that they lose focus on the speaker and

tune out the speaker as they are talking.

After talking about the different types of visual aids I would choose the images for my

speech. I feel that this is appropriate to my speech. Not everyone can see what a carnival does

after hours as the grounds are only open to the workers of the carnival. By having pictures on a

screen for the audience to see it would give the audience members a better understanding of what

the life of a carnival worker is like and what actually goes into running a carnival on a day to day

basis.

I learned throughout this class that there are many different types of speeches and ways to

communicate with an audience. I believe my strengths were having the carnival experience and

having been a manager of the unit I was on. It enabled me to speak about my experience and

realize that I know how to speak in public on a small scale and that I have the skills needed for

public speaking. The advice I would give for future students is to look to a past job that you have

had and look and see if you had to supervise anyone. Even if you were not a manager at all, but

were in a position over someone that you worked with, that experience will help you in this

class.
References:

Brookins, Miranda. (n.d.). Visual Aids to Overcome Barriers to Communication. Small Business

- Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/visual-aids-overcome-barriers

-communication-10134.html

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