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Scientific Poster Design

Scientific Poster Design. Carolyn R. Ahlers -Schmidt, Ph.D. Scientific Poster Design. Posters serve as … An advertisement of your hard work. Wow! Check this out! Cool! You must be smart!!!. Scientific Poster Design. A poster can be better than an oral presentation

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Scientific Poster Design

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  1. Scientific Poster Design Carolyn R. Ahlers-Schmidt, Ph.D.

  2. Scientific Poster Design Posters serve as … An advertisement of your hard work Wow! Check this out! Cool! You must be smart!!!

  3. Scientific Poster Design A poster can be better than an oral presentation More efficient because: • you totally bomb at giving talks • a large quantity of research to be presented • it allows for more personal interaction • it can be viewed while you get a drink • it can hang in the department for years • it can reach folks not in your field of research

  4. Scientific Poster Design How do I get months or years of research into my poster? • Tell a short story • Describe a few major points • Arouse interest • Limit to 250 - 350 words

  5. Scientific Poster Design Repeat after me: Less is best!

  6. Scientific Poster Design It’s basically an illustrated abstract

  7. Scientific Poster Design Simplify your paper into poster format Find out the size requirement!

  8. Scientific Poster Design Start putting together your 2 main elements My Amazing Poster • Simple, effective data displays • Small blocks of supporting text Objective here Figure 1 here

  9. Scientific Poster Design Simple, effective data displays Bad! Don’t make them stand on their heads to read your graphs!

  10. Scientific Poster Design Simple, effective data displays Better. Best!

  11. Scientific Poster Design Small blocks of supporting text Bad! The need for chairs in front of your poster will not go over well.

  12. Scientific Poster Design Small blocks of supporting text This version looks less like a novel … but the text could still be reduced substantially.

  13. Scientific Poster Design Insert text boxes onto the KUSM-W template to add text. Under the “Insert” tab, you will see an option for “Text Box.” Use the curser to draw the box in the desired location. Once I added this text box, I used the Drawing Tools: Format Tab to make the background white and add a border around the text . Then I created a 2nd box and used the paint brush under the “Home” tab to match the format of the 1st box. I adjusted the size under the Format Tab.

  14. Scientific Poster Design Remember, most of your audience may be there for the wine and cheese … so make your fonts at LEAST these sizes: My Amazing Poster By ME!! Title: 85 pt Authors: 56 pt Sub-headings: 36 pt Introduction This is an example poster. It will help you learn about design elements. Body text: 24 pt Example graph Captions: 18 pt Same font, same style, left justified

  15. Scientific Poster Design • Subheadings to include: • Introduction • Methods • Results • Discussion/Conclusions • Additional subheadings: • Abstract • Objective/Aims • Research Question • Hypothesis • Instruments • Limitations • Future Research • References • Acknowledgements • Funding Source • Contact Information

  16. Scientific Poster Design Poster Text Flow

  17. Scientific Poster Design Use color to make your poster visually appealing • 2 to 3 colors at most • Contrast type to background • Be careful with the primary colors

  18. Scientific Poster Design Use color to make your poster visually appealing Blue on Red appears blurry to the human eye Yellow on white is hard to read Red on Blue appears blurry to the human eye

  19. Scientific Poster Design • Be aware of busy backgrounds Bad!

  20. Scientific Poster Design A picture is worth a thousand words … • Make sure you have the right resolution • ≥ 150 dpi but ≤ 350 dpi

  21. Scientific Poster Design Print out a letter size draft • Use the “Fit to Page” print option • If you can’t read it, the font is too small. • Are the colors good? • Do the main points pop?

  22. Scientific Poster Design Poster survival kit • Push pins/binder clips/tape • Business cards • 8½” x 11” handouts • Conference name tag • White-out • Black pen • Breath mints • Bottled water

  23. Scientific Poster Design Test your learning … The Good The Bad The Ugly

  24. Scientific Poster Design This one will soon be available in paperback from Amazon.com.

  25. Scientific Poster Design AAHHH!!!

  26. Scientific Poster Design Not bad.

  27. Scientific Poster Design Snore …

  28. Scientific Poster Design This will do.

  29. Scientific Poster Design Unless you are a talented artist, individual sheets of paper is probably not the way to go.

  30. Scientific Poster Design Sunglasses, please!

  31. Scientific Poster Design Much better.

  32. Scientific Poster Design Thank you, Rainbow Brite, for your submission.

  33. Scientific Poster Design Based in part on: Cornell Center for Materials Research Scientific Poster.pdf http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm

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