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SlideEasy: How to Create More Effective Slides
Being able to give an effective presentation is an essential professional skill. Many presenters use slides as visual aids, but unfortunately their slides are often neither particularly visual nor especially helpful. Poor slide design is one of the commonest causes of giving a poor presentation, but it is an entirely correctable cause. This EasyGuide takes you step by step through the basics of good slide design, using lots of examples. And, it will introduce you to the simple acronym SWIPE, which will serve as a useful mnemonic for good slide design. Topics covered • What slides are for • Overall slide design • Colour schemes and fonts • Graphics, pictures and photos • Using slides effectively. Allan Gaw, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FFPM, PGCert Med Ed has been a clinical academic for over 30 years and most recently was Professor and Director of the Wellcome Trust/Wolfson Clinical Research Facility at Queen’s University Belfast. He has presented widely across the UK and delivered lectures in more than 40 other countries. He is passionate about good slide design, believing firmly that you should never show slides that you wouldn’t want to look at. He is the author or editor of over 25 books including the companion volumes in this series — WordEasy, WriteEasy and SpeakEasy. He also publishes articles on a range of subjects and writes a blog entitled The Business of Discovery (researchet.wordpress.com). You can find out more about him and his work at www.allangaw.com or you can follow him on twitter @ResearchET
116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 28, 2019
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About the author
Allan Gaw
31 books25 followersAllan Gaw is a Scot who lives and works near Glasgow. He studied medicine and is a pathologist by training but a writer by inclination. Having worked in the NHS and universities in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the US, he now devotes his time to writing.
Most of his published work to date is non-fiction. These include medical textbooks and regular magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.
More recently, he has been writing short stories, poetry and novels. He won the UK Classical Association Creative Writing Competition, the International Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the International Globe Soup 7 day Writing Challenge and was runner-up in the Glencairn Glass/Bloody Scotland Short Crime Fiction Competition. He has also had prose published in the literary anthologies, From Glasgow to Saturn and anthologies and the Edinburgh Literary Salon.
His poetry has been published by Dreich, Soor Ploom Press, Black Bough Poetry, SCAP and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His debut poetry collection, Love & Other Diseases, was published in 2023 by Seahorse Publications. His second poetry collection, The Sounds Men Make, was published in 2025, also by Seahorse.
His debut novel, The Silent House of Sleep, won the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut novel of the year. His second novel, The Moon’s More Feeble Fire, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize The third book in the Dr Jack Cuthbert series, To the Shades Descend is out now and the fourth, The Shadows and the Dust, will be released in January 2026.
You can read more about him and his work at his website: https://researchet.wordpress.com
Most of his published work to date is non-fiction. These include medical textbooks and regular magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.
More recently, he has been writing short stories, poetry and novels. He won the UK Classical Association Creative Writing Competition, the International Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the International Globe Soup 7 day Writing Challenge and was runner-up in the Glencairn Glass/Bloody Scotland Short Crime Fiction Competition. He has also had prose published in the literary anthologies, From Glasgow to Saturn and anthologies and the Edinburgh Literary Salon.
His poetry has been published by Dreich, Soor Ploom Press, Black Bough Poetry, SCAP and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His debut poetry collection, Love & Other Diseases, was published in 2023 by Seahorse Publications. His second poetry collection, The Sounds Men Make, was published in 2025, also by Seahorse.
His debut novel, The Silent House of Sleep, won the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut novel of the year. His second novel, The Moon’s More Feeble Fire, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize The third book in the Dr Jack Cuthbert series, To the Shades Descend is out now and the fourth, The Shadows and the Dust, will be released in January 2026.
You can read more about him and his work at his website: https://researchet.wordpress.com
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