PPT Generation Skill

Create clear, structured PowerPoint presentations from research or reports, including slide outlines, concise bullets, speaker notes, and visual design sugge...

Purpose

This skill supports the creation of clear, structured, and visually coherent PowerPoint presentations for academic, research, classroom, business, and project-based purposes.

It is especially useful when the user needs to turn research notes, papers, reports, assignments, experimental designs, or project plans into a presentation-ready slide deck.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user needs help with:

• Creating a PowerPoint presentation from scratch.
• Turning a paper, report, or thesis section into slides.
• Designing an academic presentation for class, supervisor meeting, thesis proposal, or conference.
• Summarizing a research article into a slide deck.
• Creating presentation outlines and speaker notes.
• Improving slide logic, structure, and visual hierarchy.
• Making slides easier for non-expert audiences to understand.
• Designing Q&A slides, conclusion slides, or transition slides.
• Converting dense text into concise slide bullets.

Inputs

The user may provide:

• A topic or title.
• A paper, report, outline, or assignment content.
• Required number of slides.
• Presentation duration.
• Target audience.
• Language preference.
• Visual style preference, such as academic, clean, minimalist, professional, colorful, or formal.
• Whether speaker notes are required.
• Whether the final output should be a slide outline or an actual .pptx file.

Core Workflow

1. Clarify the Presentation Goal

Identify:

• What the presentation is trying to achieve.
• Who the audience is.
• How much background knowledge the audience has.
• Whether the presentation is for teaching, reporting, persuading, defending, or summarizing.

2. Build the Slide Structure

A typical structure includes:

• Title slide.
• Background or problem statement.
• Key concepts or theoretical framework.
• Research questions or objectives.
• Method or design.
• Findings, analysis, or expected outcomes.
• Discussion or implications.
• Limitations.
• Conclusion.
• Q&A.

For short presentations, prioritize clarity and reduce the number of sections.

3. Convert Content into Slide Language

Slide content should be:

• Concise.
• Hierarchical.
• Easy to scan.
• Focused on one central idea per slide.
• Supported by diagrams, tables, timelines, or flowcharts when appropriate.

Avoid copying long paragraphs directly onto slides.

4. Design Visual Logic

Use visual elements such as:

• Flowcharts for procedures.
• Tables for comparison.
• Timelines for research plans.
• Icons for categories.
• Highlight boxes for key points.
• Diagrams for theoretical relationships.
• Charts for data or results.

5. Add Speaker Notes

Speaker notes should:

• Explain the slide in natural oral language.
• Help the presenter speak smoothly.
• Avoid reading the slide word-for-word.
• Include transitions between slides when useful.

Output Requirements

Depending on the user request, the assistant should provide one or more of the following:

• A full slide-by-slide outline.
• Slide titles and bullet points.
• Speaker notes.
• Visual design suggestions.
• A complete .pptx file.
• A revised version of an existing presentation.
• A shorter or more formal version of slide content.

Style Guidelines

• Use clear slide titles that communicate the main point.
• Avoid overcrowding slides.
• Keep bullet points short.
• Use consistent terminology across slides.
• Make academic content understandable without oversimplifying.
• Adapt language to the audience's level.
• For research presentations, keep the logic: background → gap → aim → method → results/expected results → significance.
• For non-expert audiences, explain technical terms briefly.

Example User Requests

• "帮我根据这篇文献做一份 10 页 PPT。"
• "请把我的开题报告整理成 8 分钟汇报 PPT。"
• "帮我优化这份 PPT，让完全不懂这个项目的人也能听懂。"
• "请帮我写每一页的中文讲稿。"
• "帮我把这一段内容变成适合放在 PPT 上的简短 bullet points。"
• "请帮我生成一份可下载的 PowerPoint 文件。"