tips for a great scientific poster
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Tips for a great scientific poster
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What is the goal of a poster?
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What is the goal of a poster?
Posters serve as …a source of informationa conversation startera summary of your workan advertisement of your work
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What do you want to show?
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What do you want to show?
• It’s an enormous question, so take the next 4 steps:
• 1) Write down the theme of your poster will be. Make it one sentence. And reduce it to a noun
• 2) Write down what you want to achieve,like: “tell the audience about the history of cars” or “show our research on oil”
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• 3) make questions with the theme in mind:What is it? What are the best parts? How many people
use it? How long has it been around?
• 4) Put them in the right order. What is most important? What is most crucial?
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Use the right balance
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Use the right balance
Get your message across with effective visual displays of data and small blocks of supporting text.
Think of your poster as an illustratedabstract.
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Keep your audience in mind
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Keep your audience in mind
• Think about: who is your audience? What will attract their attention?
• Maybe only students will be there but there might be some professors present. Your poster might be meant for an elementary school… your audience is crucial.
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Content:
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Content:
• Tell readers why your work matters, what you did, what you found, and what you recommend.
• Avoid excessive focus on methods – it’s the results and implications that count!
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Colour
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Colour
• Use color cautiously. Dark letters on light background are easiest to
• read. Stick to a theme of 2-3 colors. Avoid overly bright colors – they
• attract attention but wear out reader’s eyes.
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Must haves for your poster
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Must haves for your poster
• 1. Title• 2. The main question• 3. Research method• 4. The most important results• 5. Conclusions• 6. Full contact information. You want to be found –
the reader should not have to look up anything to find you
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Show the cohesion
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Show the cohesion
• 1. Use lines and arrows to show how the parts are related
• 2. Use numbers if needed• 3. Use figures and tables• 4. Give the figures and the tables clear titles• 5. Use legends
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And …..
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And …..
• What is your core message? What do you really really want to tell people? Keep that in mind while creating every part of your poster
• Keep it short: only 10 to 20 lines of text in a box. And rather 10 than 20.
• Illustrate!
• Make the names of the paragraphs interessting • KISS keep it short and simple
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Tips for a great scientific poster
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References:
• Frontpage: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianauer/2402882692
• Goal: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angietorres/4564135455/in/
• Balance: https://www.flickr.com/photos/86639298@N02/8560840624/
• Show: https://www.flickr.com/photos/4nitsirk/14707997759/
• Audience: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesuspresley/6922073675/
• Content: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10ch/3347658610/
• Colours: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaneda99/206508326/
• Must: https://www.flickr.com/photos/taylar/3449004611/
• Cohesion: https://www.flickr.com/photos/olyvia-nodsle/3051524662/
• & https://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornmeansbear/4836568068/
• George Hess / NC State University / Raleigh NC 27695-8008
• www4.ncsu.edu/~grhess [email protected] © 2014
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