Harvard Templates

PowerPoint Presentations

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Slides

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Author (Year of publication) Title of presentation [PowerPoint presentation]. Available at: URL (Accessed: date).

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Citation
Paraphrasing / Summarising

Jeong (2023) points out that cinema has ...

... aptly demonstrates that increased budgets do not equal increased critical accliam (Jeong, 2023).

Quoting

Jeong (2023, slide 2) says "advertising costs can trigger a sunk cost fallacy".

Many production companies are created purely to "take the hit and fold" (Jeong, 2023, slide 7) leaving the investors free to ...

Reference List

Jeong, P. (2023) The changing face of cinema. [PowerPoint presentation]. Available at: https://www.ilm.com/vfx/talking-points/changing-faces-of-cinema/ (Accessed: 29 June 2024).

Notes

If you wish to refer to a specific slide, do this in your in-text citation.

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Author or tutor (Year of publication) 'Title of presentation' [PowerPoint presentation]. Module code: Module title. Available at: URL (Accessed: date).

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Information comes in a range of formats (Cavill 2022).

Quoting

... clear that "information is not free" (Cavill, 2022, slide 3).

Reference List

Cavill, H. (2022) 'Pipeline of an idea' [PowerPoint presentation]. CMM539: Information retrieval systems. Robert Gordon University. Available at: https://campusmoodle.rgu.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=810614 (Accessed: 29 August 2024).

Notes

If you wish to refer to a specific slide, do this in your in-text citation.