(lively music) What does it take to build a virtual presentation from the ground up? Let's go over how to build your presentation around an outline, different themes and types. We'll also discuss using creative language and rhetorical devices and using body language to the best effect. A reliable method for building the groundwork of your presentation is to start by making an outline. Outlines typically contain the introduction, body and the conclusion. If your role as a presenter is to help guide people through a process of understanding concepts or completing tasks, one additional technique for building your outline is to title each section by its theme, not just its category. For example, let's say you're writing a presentation on how to create PowerPoint presentations. The introduction might be called "An Overview of PowerPoint" because thematically you're starting your presentation with a brief description of the basics of PowerPoint. A presentation that deals with your own line of work might include different categorical sections based on the type of presentation. With an introduction, body and conclusion, you have the basic categories needed to give an informational presentation where you are sharing ideas on a topic or providing a how-to. Other presentation types have different categories. For example, if your presentation is persuasive in nature you might also include rebuttal and call to action categories where you anticipate and counter-argue oppositions and ask for people to take an additional step. Other types of presentations might need more of a storytelling approach in which you narrate events in chronological order. This can be an opportunity to get creative. Once you've identified the type of presentation you want to write, have decided the basic categories and drafted titles and themes in your outline, it's time to fill out each section and write transitional statements that connect them into one cohesive presentation.