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Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations

When PowerPoint presentations are designed with purpose and clarity, they can be a powerful and visually stimulating way to convey information. Putra & Kayen (2025) explained, “The effective presentation delivery in the academic area is essential for conveying knowledge, demonstrating understanding, and engaging an audience” (p. 65). Using key elements of effective presentation design can…

Purdue Global Promotes More Good Days, Together

If you do not see the podcast, click here to listen. The Learning for Success Center at Purdue Global is promoting “More Good Days, Together” with our Mental Health Awareness Month programming. To encourage student well-being and build our student community, we are hosting live events every Tuesday at 1 pm (ET) throughout the month…

10 Ways to Polish a Draft

Writing typically happens in stages. During prewriting, research and planning build a foundation. Drafting gives shape to ideas, while editing corrects errors. Revision fine-tunes readability, connectedness, structure, and the effective expression of thoughts. Successful writers stick to each step of the process (Strunk & White, 2000). Nonetheless, as Feltham and Sharen (2015) suggest, students often…