8. Quality of presentation

Information which is presented in a disorganised way or in a manner that is hard to understand will be less useful to you.

Choosing the best method of presenting your information and perhaps sorting or organising it before you present it can make it much easier to understand and far more useful.

Business data

If you were asked to present some information in a business meeting. It is often better to present it graphically. People find it very hard to spot patterns in a table of data, but the same information presented as a graph makes it very easy.

Buying a house

Your parents want to buy a new house. It is much easier to pick a house if a photograph was available.

Your parents can see instantly if the house would appeal to them and whether they would be interested in finding out more.

Once they have decided they like the look of the house they would then want more detailed written information. However, giving them the written information first with no idea of what the house looks like would make it difficult for them to get an idea as to whether they would like it.