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Effective Poster Design: Tips & Structure for Poster Sessions

Learn how to create engaging posters for sessions with key rules, tips for text, graphs, and images, and guidelines for printing and presenting. Ensure your poster stands out effectively!

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Effective Poster Design: Tips & Structure for Poster Sessions

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  1. How to make a poster • Getting started… • Importing graphs and pics • A few tips

  2. Getting started… POSTER SESSION • square format • size 42’ x 42’ • Use Powerpoint

  3. Structure • Abstract • Introduction (end with ‘Thesis Statement’) • Methods • Results and Discussion • Conclusions • Key References (< 5)

  4. Key Rules • Minimize Text • Maximize Graphs + Charts + Images • Only use tables if absolutely required • No background image/color • Leave 1 inch of empty space all around • FILE SIZE (< 5MB)

  5. How to start • download template http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/sen_sem/FLastname_poster.ppt • template has • preset custom ‘Page Setup’ (42’ x 42’) • recommended preset fonts e.g., 54pt for title 24pt for text(=minimum font size) • Add date in corner • Save template as LastnameF_poster.ppt

  6. Tips 1 - Text “Most people won’t read through all off your poster” Most important: Title Abstract Concise Introduction (Motivation) Graphs (with meaningful captions) Text: re-write text (vs. thesis) structure text by using BULLETS etc.

  7. Tips 2 – Graphs & Images • Images should be 200dpi • Implementation of Excel Graphs Use ‘Paste Special’ to Copy Excel Graphs as Picture (Enhanced Metafile) • Implementation of Graphs/Images e.g., cut/past from pdf: Image Size/ Resolution depends on size on screen FILE SIZE ideally < 5MB

  8. Poster Printing • sign up for Printing Session (20min) • bring PPTX file and PDF file • print from pdf on MAC • be ready to print when you come in! • put draft/final ppt file on courseworks website • ppt file < 5MB

  9. Poster Session For the Poster Session • Print your poster on ‘letter’ format for use as “hand-outs” (optional) (use ‘scale to fit’ option) • Be prepared to give quick “tour through your poster” focusing on the most relevant points of your project

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