Visual aids are visual materials, such as pictures, charts, and diagrams. Visual aids help people understand and remember information shared in an oral presentation. It can increase enhance and enrich your presentation. Visual aids have various functions in order to make a presentation perform easily and effectively. Now let me describe two functions that visuals help us to perform easily and effectively.
Visual aids are the important part of an effective presentation. Firstly, visual aids make a presentation more attractive and help us reduce the number of words used in the presentation and it helps to present figures and make the process of comparison and contrast become very easy. A variety of visual aids, like flip charts, line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, pictograms, maps, tables, diagrams, and photographs, are commonly used for this function. Most presentations deal with statistics and other complex data. Visual aids help the audience understand complicated data analysis with no confusion. Secondly, visual aids help us to talk about past, present and future trends, thus serving the dual purpose of enabling the presenter to deal with this kind of information easily and making it possible for listeners to understand these clearly. These are the two basic functions of visual aids which we use in a presentation.
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