Escaping PowerPoint PurgatoryWhen PowerPoint was launched onto the market 20 years ago it was sold in as a ‘freebie’ – buy Microsoft office and along with Word and Excel we will throw in PowerPoint! Today it has infiltrated everything from law courts to business and every level of education. When you are asked to do a ’20 minute talk’ the first thing you do is open your laptop and start typing… it’s so easy! Before you know it you have 40 slides crammed full of text but no structure and no point.
Dangerous GrammarWords are powerful. If you’re going to be careful picking your words, you’ll want to be just as careful with the way you arrange them – that’s grammar. Article by Natasha Reddrop of Grammar Debugged.
