They are smart, sexy and easy to create using the latest Microsoft Office or Open Source software. While not many of your professors will be asking for papers on PowerPoint there are a number of creative ways the program can be used in different aspects of your life. The fields of math and science especially lend themselves to audio/visual presentation.
The ability to communicate is a necessary skill for all students, not just those in a communications major. Many argue that this essential ability is being lost in the world of technology, texting and social networking. Our aptitude to dialogue face-to-face is being replaced by online communications which are less personal, void of emotive engagement and without any of the artful skills employed by body language and inflection. Traditionally these skills were honed in day to day interactions, around the dinner table, during classroom presentations and via debates.
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