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General Principles to Make Handouts
This document provides guidance on creating effective handouts. It recommends considering the objective, audience, and intention when developing content. The handout should include an introduction, outline, summary of main points, visual aids if needed, conclusions, questions from the material, and frequently asked questions by students. It advises to avoid excessive jargon, clutter, and copyrighted material. Organized information, clear language, headings, white space, illustrative graphics placed near text, and keeping a master copy are suggested to create understandable and useful handouts.
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- 1. General Principles toMake Handouts BY MANSHI RESEARCH SCHOLAR M.PHIL (ENGLISH) BANASTHALI VIDHYAPITH, RAJASTHAN
- 2. Content Points toremember Content of Handouts Do & Don’t
- 3. Points to Remember While making handouts, we should keep 3 things in mind • Objective – consider Bloom’s Taxonomy • Type of Audience • Intention
- 4. Objectives Intention ( Content wecover ) Type of audience (PG Students or Literature students)
- 5. Content of Handouts Introductory information an outline summary of main points visual aids (if needed) conclusions questions posed by the material questions frequently asked by students (FAQs) links to other lectures.
- 6. Do & Don’t Don’t Avoid used excessive jargons Avoid clutter Don’t include excessive content on a single page that your handout begins to look like a textbook. Try to avoid writing down vocabulary in the target language on your handouts. Avoid including copyrighted material Use company letterhead or company name, logo, etc. Submit journal articles without receiving written permission. Do Organized the information in a logical order for learning Use simple, clear language throughout Subdivide long handouts with headings Left plenty of white space where students are to write on the handout Chosen graphics that illustrate the topic clearly Used graphics to explain difficult or complicated procedural steps Placed graphics close to the written material they illustrate Keep a master copy with yourself
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