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Acknowledgements. References or Literature Cited. Introduction. Experimental Method.
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Acknowledgements References or Literature Cited Introduction Experimental Method • Nguyen, M. T.; Kaneti, J.; Hoesch, L.; Dreiding, A. S. Helv. Chim. Acta1984, 67, 1918. This is a journal citation. Title in italics! Some citation formats place the initials after the authors’ surname. • 2. Chemical Demonstrations Vol 1, B. Z. Shakhashiri, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. This is a book. Title in italics! • 3. “Determination of Hydrogen Peroxide Concentration”, Solvay Chemicals, www.solvaychemicals/pdf/Hydrogen_Peroxide/HH-121.pdf accessed Dec 2005. This is a web site for a chemical company. Note that the date the site was checked is given. • !!!Ask your mentor for the appropriate citation form used in your discipline!!! You may wish to thank someone who was particularly helpful to the project, either by providing samples, doing special measurements, or providing documents that would not have been available otherwise. Money is important; be sure to thank SOAR and any other sources of $$$. But it would be a stretch to thank your Mom because she baked cookies for your advisor. A good introduction should start with some general information about the topic. Example: The reaction of luminol with hydrogen peroxide is the classic demonstration of chemiluminescence (2), light produced by a chemical reaction. But it’s not as exciting as the light from a chemical lightstick, or as bright as a laser. Blah, blah, blah. Notice that bold was used instead of italics for emphasis. Confine your use of italics to foreign words and phrases or titles; for example, tres bien or War and Peace. The “2” in parentheses is a citation; see the References section. This is the citation method for the Journal of Chemical Education; you should use whatever is appropriate for your discipline. Our study is an effort to make the luminol reaction bigger and brighter. Notice that we indented the second paragraph, but not the first! Blah, blah, blah. The heading is 36 point Arial, while the text is 28 point times New Roman. Red certainly makes the heading stand out, but you can use another color. Avoid yellow! Note that the title, the headings, and the caption are in a sanserif font, but text is in a serif font. I like this heading using the black ruler line that goes all the way across the column. But you don’t have to do that—see below. Many readers will be curious about how you did your experiment, what samples you used, sample preparation procedures, methods of data analysis, types of scientific instrumentation, etc. Here’s a good place to clue them in. A picture of the experiment is always cool. Avoid the temptation to print out every last detail of the experiment. Your poster patrons really don’t want to read everything, no matter what you might think. Just give them enough information so that they can ask you intelligent questions. Remember, you’ll be standing by the poster, and you want them to talk to you! Don’t forget to indent additional paragraphs. Oh, I guess you could use a bulleted list for the experimental method. This would be the only place on a poster that I would even think of using a bulleted list, but that’s just my opinion. Title that Describes Problem or Question Addressed Your name here, Your advisor’s name there Department of Your Major, Moravian College, 1200 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018 Abstract The abstract is a brief description of the goal of the project or study, plus important results--even numerical results--that have been uncovered. Not all disciplines require posters to have abstracts, so you can consider this an optional section. It should never be longer than one paragraph, and should probably have about four to eight sentences. For example: The goal of our project is to measure the average size of a loaf of bread. Based on a sample of 15 loaves from various bread companies, we have determined that a loaf of bread weighs 453 ± 12 grams and measures 32 × 12 × 20cm, which makes it slightly smaller than the typical bread basket. Figure 1. This is a diagram, which is a figure. Figure captions go below the figure. The caption font is Arial 30 point. Captions need enough information to make the figure understandable! Figure 3. n squared vs n.This is an Excel chart. A graph is a figure, so its caption is below the graph. A graph is always named “y vs. x”; in this case n squared vs n. Always remove the stupid outside border that Excel puts around the axes of the chart! Results and Discussion As you describe your results, use numbers to point readers to the tables and figures that are displayed on the poster. Always refer to the tables and figures by their numbers– after all, that’s why you numbered them! Avoid the temptation to use a bulleted list for your results—try to write complete sentences here. Figure 1 illustrates the reaction pathways that exist for triaziridine rings; note that structure 2 has only one pathway available. Figure 2 is a very pretty space-filling picture of isopropyl alcohol, also known as rubbing alcohol. Most people believe that carbon is black, but Figure 2 demonstrates the remarkable fact that carbon atoms are blue. Everyone who has had an algebra class remembers the quadratic formula, though perhaps not fondly. Table 1 shows various bond lengths and bond angles for structures of N3H3; none of these values should be committed to memory. Finally,Figure 3 demonstrates the extraordinary result that a plot of n squared vs n looks like a parabola--you know, the function y=x2. We need to know if Greek letters work okay: α, β, δ, Ω. Guess they do. Introduction The reaction of luminol with hydrogen peroxide is the classic demonstration of chemiluminescence (2), light produced by a chemical reaction. Our study is an effort to makethe luminol reaction bigger and brighter. Chemists will routinely insert chemical reactions into text. Math equations can be treated that way as well. That’s another sort of general information you should include in an introduction. You can choose to use the red underline of section label, shown in this text box, or you can use the black ruler line shown above. But please, don’t use both! And use the same color for all your section headings. Figure 2. An imbedded picture is also a figure. An equation is not a figure, but if you have several, perhaps they should be numbered. Table 1. Title at the top of a table! Notice the footnote for the table that provide units! Note that this table has only three horizontal rules, and no vertical rules—very economical on ink. aBond distances in Å and bond angles in degrees.
