Using Powerpoint Presentations for Essay Writing Lessons

The powerpoint presentations or power point presentation is a brand of presentation program consisting of a computer software that displays information as a slide show. A common use of powerpoint  presentations are in academic settings such as the classrooms, gymnasiums, computer laboratories and science laboratories for primary schools and secondary schools, and in lecture halls for universities and colleges. The powerpoint presentations has become a supplementary visual aid in teaching lessons together with typeset slides, blackboards or whiteboards, and overhead projectors.

There are several advantages in using powerpoint pesentations as visual aids for teaching students such as the easy steps that enable teachers or lecturers in learning to use powerpoint within a short time. In addition, the presentation content could combine dynamic text, animation, graphics, and other visuals that could make a lesson on Powerpoint very interesting and engaging for the students so they would not be bored during the lesson.

Many lecturers from universities and colleges would now discuss a lesson on essay writing with the use of the powerpoint presentation as the supplement visual aid together with the traditional visual aids such as whiteboards and overhead projectors that are commonly used in lecture halls. A lesson on the basic tips on how to perform research and write an essay could be more effective for students if the powerpoint presentation as a supplement visual aid.

For example, essays that involve subject areas that have many discussions on categories and sub-categories, field and sub-fields, and a comprehensive topical outline of the subject could be discussed or taught more efficiently to a class or large audience of students if the powerpoint presentations are used as the supplement visual aids together with other educational or teaching visual aids.

A good example is the discipline of business as a major course taught in universities or colleges. The business essays are researched and written by students taking up various courses in or related to business such as accountancy, business science, business administration, commerce, economics, management, marketing, and other courses related to business.

A lecturer teaching some lessons about the process for researching and writing a business essay could be teaching many students from those courses so that he could possible use the same lesson for the same group of students. Therefore, the lecturer would have an easier time to discuss his lesson on the research and writing process for a business essay if he uses a powerpoint presentation program as a supplement visual aid together with a whiteboard and an overhead projector.