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The Truth About Confident Presenting
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The Truth About Confident Presenting

by James O’Rourke
February 2008
Beginner
224 pages
3h 15m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 42. Understand Visual Images Before You Use Them

A wide range of visual elements is available to help you illustrate and make your point in a presentation. Let’s focus on five of them here. Choosing the right visual depends on your message and the comparisons you hope to make.

  1. The pie chart—This is among the most common of graphic support ideas, perhaps because its design is so basic and easy to understand. A pie chart consists of a circle (or pie shape) with triangular components created by drawing lines from the center point to the edge of the circle. The purpose of a pie chart is to show the size of each part as a percentage of the whole. The source of revenues in an annual budget, for example, is easily represented in a pie chart. ...

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