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.

1. General Principles to Make
Handouts
BY
MANSHI
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
M.PHIL (ENGLISH)
BANASTHALI VIDHYAPITH, RAJASTHAN

2. Content
 Points to remember
 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 we cover )
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

7. Thank You