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Poster PresentationsEffective
Presentation outline
• Why research posters?• Visual communication tools• Critique• Details about poster format and design• Helpful links
Why give Scientific Posters?
• To serve as a basis for structured communication
• To convey findings in scientific research
• To share ideas with colleagues
• To get criticism and constructive input to the project
• To serve as an alternative to longer oral presentations
• To learn how to organize and effectively present research data
An effective poster- visual communications tool
Why poster presentation?• a source of information• a conversation starter• a summary of your work•an advertisement of your work
Features of effective poster
focused on single message
a picture is worth a thousand words
well organized
Focused
Graphics
Organized
Know your audience
Most audiences includes people in • same field of specialization • closely related field • unrelated fields(Woolsey 1989)
Adapted from Hess, G.R., Tosney K., and Liegel L., (2010). Creating Effective Poster Presentations. http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters
Not a standard research paper stuck to the board
• Explain why your work is important • Describe the objective(s) of your work • Briefly explain the methods • Succinctly state results, conclusions, and recommendations •Include Main Reference(s)
• http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/examples/GeneFlowInLions/
Two Types of Posters
Largedocument printed
on a special printer
Banner-style title
Multiple Panel Poster - which can be mounted on colorful poster board
One Sheet Poster
or a …
Effective posters share the following traits:
• Viewer-friendly style with large (not small) typeface & informative subheadings
• Use pictures, drawing and cartoons to present the majority of the information
• Small offerings of information vs. long paragraphs of text (bullets not sentences)
• Logical and orderly progression of presentation of information
• Summary statement(s) of key aspects • Easily understood language without jargon or
undefined acronyms
Is there a standard format?• Title, telling others the title of the project, the people
involved and their affiliation.
• Introduction that should include clear statements about the problem that you are trying to solve, the characteristics that you are trying to discover or the proofs that you are trying to establish. These should then lead to declarations of project aims and objectives.
• Theory or Methodology section that explains the basis of the technique that you are using or the procedure that you have adopted in your study. You should also state and justify any assumptions, so that your results could be viewed in the proper context.
• Results section that you use to show illustrative examples of the main results of the work.
• Conclusion section, listing the main findings of your investigation.
• Further Work section that should contain your recommendations and thoughts about how the work could be progressed; other tests that could be applied, etc.
In Summary
• Tell viewers ... • the context of your problem and why it is
important (Introduction), • your objective and what you did (Objective &
Methods), • what you discovered (Results), and • what the answer means in terms of the
context (Discussion).
• Minimize text - use images and graphs instead.
• Keep text elements to 50 words or fewer.
• Use phrases rather than full sentences.
• Use an active voice.
• Avoid jargon (depends somewhat on audience).
• Left-justify text; avoid centering and right-justifying text.
• Use a serif font (e.g., Times) for most text - easier to read. Sans-serif font (e.g., Helvetica) OK for titles and headings
Text sizes
Title: 85 point
Authors: 56pt
Sub-headings: 36pt
Body text: 24pt
Captions: 18pt
Stay focus on your message and keep it simple!
Selected resources
• http://www.tc.umn.edu/~schne006/tutorials/poster_design/
• http://www.postersw.com/
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