 effective presentations effective effective means that something is successful or works well an effective presentation successfully conveys your ideas to an audience through the use of words and images presentation a presentation is displaying or showing information to an audience people often use PowerPoint or Google slides as tools to develop their presentations engage when you engage someone you attract and keep their attention presenters should develop presentations that engage their audience explain to explain means to give information about a topic so that people can understand when you give a presentation you explain your topic and ideas to your audience persuade to persuade means to convince someone to do something presentations are sometimes used persuade people to do something creative something that is unique is creative advertising companies develop creative commercials and presentations to convince people to buy products interesting when something is appealing to others it is interesting if you want to keep your audience's attention when presenting your presentation should be interesting organized if something is organized it is in order presentations should be well organized this means that the information should be presented to the audience in a certain order outline an outline is a list of main ideas and details to support the main ideas using an outline can help you organize your presentation introduction the beginning of a presentation is called the introduction the introduction tells the audience what your presentation is about body the body of a presentation gives the audience all of the information about your presentation topic it provides details and examples to help explain the topic conclusion the conclusion of a presentation summarizes all of the main parts of a presentation having a strong conclusion helps your audience remember the information presented the end