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PREPARING AN ACADEMIC POSTER A Verbose Guide to Preparing an Academic Poster STEP 1: Think about how to best design a poster to meet your goals. ISSUES TO CONSIDER. Purpose. The purpose of the poster is to present your work in a form that is easily understood and stimulates interest. Ideally, it will allow for an exchange of ideas between the presenter (you) and the people reading the poster. A good poster tells a story. In general, a poster should include - a statement of the problem - description of method(s) - results - summary & conclusions - (possibly, but not always) reference list Simplicity is key. The reader may spend only a few minutes (or less!) looking at the poster, so the poster should contain only informative statements and clear, attractive graphics. Consider the circumstances in which the poster will be viewed. Readers won’t be sitting alone in an empty room with nothing but your poster for entertainment. Generally, poster sessions are crowded social events. This means that… Posters need to be interesting and visually stand out to attract viewers. A poster session in which posters all look the same (with lots of tiny text no one really wants to read and no pictures or graphics) is an incredibly dull poster session. Your research has personality – make your poster convey that! Subfields have different norms. Different areas in psychology have different standards for what is included on a poster. For example, in “good” Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology posters often include more text and details than “good” Social/Personality Psychology posters. You may want to ask your advisor or grad students in your lab to show you some posters of their work. STEP 2: Think through & plan your poster. ISSUES TO CONSIDER. Sections of a poster. Keep in mind that your poster should tell a story and that some sections (e.g., Results) are more of a focus than others. Title. The title should be a banner spanning the top of the poster. It should convey the issue your research addresses. It may also convey the approach and the animal being studied, particularly if the approach is novel and the “animal” is non-human! - Needs to be catchy and meaningful to get readers’ attention - 1-2 lines MAXIMUM Your name & affiliation. Under the title, typically in a slightly smaller font, you should include your name, the name(s) or your co-author(s) (i.e., your advisor), and your affiliation (University of Texas at Austin). Abstract. In general, do NOT include lengthy and detailed abstracts. In lieu of a full abstract, you may want to include a brief (up to 50 word) description of the research. (Note: Whether or not abstracts are included varies by psychology subfield. In Social/Personality, they are NOT.) Introduction. At the minimum, the introduction should (1) get the readers interested while using a minimum of background, information and definitions, (2) quickly place your research in context (with respect to published research), and (3) make it clear why the issue and research are important (why should we care?). - Keep the intro as short as possible while achieving these goals. - Note that “X has never been studied before” is an interesting fact, but not a reason to study it. Hypothesis/es. Include a brief, clear statement of your hypothesis or hypotheses. Materials & methods. Briefly describe experimental equipment and methods, but NOT with as much detail as written in your paper. Consider using figures and tables to illustrate the experimental design. Consider using flow charts to summarize steps or timing of procedures if appropriate. Include photographs or labeled drawings where appropriate. Results. The results section should be large, unless you have no data! Consider presenting results in graphs or figures with brief sentences summarizing the results above or below the graphs or figures. Present the statistical analyses that were used and the resulting statistics. If a large number of analyses were run and most were not significant, it may not be necessary to include the p-values and effect sizes for the non-significant statistics. Conclusions. Quickly and briefly state your findings with respect to your hypothesis. Discuss why your results are interesting and give a “take away” message. Consider mentioning relevance to the real world, to published work, and future directions. Keep it brief! Bulleted lists are good here. Literature cited. This doesn’t need to be a long reference list like the one in your paper. It should list only those references cited on your poster. Make sure the references are formatted exactly and limit them in number (no more than 10). Note that some posters include parenthetical references, (e.g., “Jones & Gosling, 2005”), but don’t include reference lists. MORE ISSUES TO CONSIDER… Layout & Design. It’s a poster, not a research paper on a huge piece of paper. Don’t just paste your research paper onto a big piece of paper and throw some pictures in with the text. Use simple, legible fonts. Some people advise using a non-serif font (e.g., Arial) for titles and a serif font (e.g., Times New Roman) for paragraphs. Remember to use a banner title that spans the top of the poster. Make sure the fonts are large enough to be comfortably legible to readers. Title should be legible from at least 25 feet (at least 90 pt). Author names may be smaller (60-80 pt), and affiliation may be smaller still (40-50 pt). Main section titles should be clear and legible from at least 9 or so feet away (36-45 pt). Poster text should be legible so that a group of people can stand around the poster at once, probably with no one closer than 3 or 4 feet, and comfortably read the poster (24-40 pt). Group things together into columns or boxes. The poster should be easy to follow so that the reader’s eye naturally travels from one section to the next. Avoid excessive detail. Include important and crucial details, but remember that fine points can be communicated through conversation with interested readers. Too much detail on the poster will probably clutter it, making understanding the big picture more difficult. Rule of thumb: All text should be kept to a minimum so that a person could fully read your poster in 10 minutes or less. Avoid large blocks of text. You don’t have to use sentences. Sometimes bulleted lists are more effective and easier to read. Another option is to break paragraphs into smaller pieces, keeping closely related sentences together. This may help text to look less overwhelming. Use color and graphics to make the poster more appealing. Relevant images (photos, graphics, etc.) can be eye-catching and attractive. Don’t make the whole thing on a colored background or use large blocks of dark colors. The ink is expensive and printing will take forever. If you want an enticing background, you can try using a large picture, faded so that black text shows up on it. …but be warned that large images take a while to print! Paragraph formatting. Justified text might look better (cleaner, more business-like). If you choose to justify, check the spacing between words. Sometimes huge spaces show up between words. Widows & orphans. Avoid paragraphs with a single word runs on the last line. They’re ugly. Step 3: Actually making the poster…almost. Before you dive into making what you hope will be your final poster, sketch it out by hand or quickly in PowerPoint. If possible, have someone else familiar with your study look at it to make sure you’re including the key ideas before you go through all the effort of making the actual poster! Step 4: Actually making the poster. (…if you’re using a PC.) PowerPoint Open PowerPoint. Go to File Page Setup Slides Sized for: Custom Width: 53 inches Height: 34 inches Orientation – Slides: Landscape You’re now ready to make your poster! A note on margins. Keep at least a ¾” margin of white around the outer edge of your poster. If the poster content is too close to the edges of the paper (particularly the right and left sides), the poster printer will often cut off the edge (particularly the right edge) of your poster! If you fail to keep an adequate margin or are worried about the poster’s edges being cut-off when you print it, you can shrink the entire poster by just a few percent. Step 5: Proof-read your poster BEFORE you print out a giant poster. Print a small version of the poster on a regular printer (NOT on a poster printer!). File Print Scale to fit paper Proofread this small version. Check very carefully for typos, spelling errors, etc. If the small version is legible enough (and hopefully it is, because hopefully your fonts and graphics aren’t miniscule!), ask someone else to proofread it. After you’ve been staring at your poster for countless hours, you’re less likely to catch errors. But, when you’re standing at the poster session for a long time with a 53” * 34” poster, you’ll find the typos…and begin to hate them. Step 6: Printing your poster. Open your poster file. Make sure it looks as you expect it to. Go to File Print Make sure Scale to fit paper is NOT selected. Under Printer: Name select either ColorPoster HP1055CM (black) or ColorPoster HP2500CP. (See notes below about the differences between the two printers.) If neither printer is listed, you’ll have to add one. You can do this in a few ways, including from the Print window within PowerPoint. To do this, from File Print, select Find Printer…. Select find: Printers in: psy, then click Find Now. Scroll through the list until you find the poster printer you want. Note that both poster printers’ Location is SEA 2.315. Once you’ve selected the printer… Click Properties (In the upper right corner of the PowerPoint Print window). Under Layout: Orientation, select Landscape. Click Advanced. Under Paper Size select 36” by 60” Note: If you’re concerned that the edges of your poster might be cut off in printing, reduce the scaling from 100% (usually to about 97%). Detailed directions of how to print posters are available either in the 2nd floor computer lab (2.315), where the psychology poster printers are, or online at http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/GRAPHICS/posters/ ppt 关于艾滋病ppt课件精益管理ppt下载地图下载ppt可编辑假如ppt教学课件下载triz基础知识ppt Posters.pdf There are two poster printers. The black poster printer is recommended – it’s newer, faster, and prints pictures better. The black poster printer takes about 10 minutes to print out a poster, once it starts printing the poster. In the printer directory it’s called “ColorPoster HP1055CM (black)”. The white poster printer is older and slower. The white poster printer takes quite a long time (sometimes half an hour!), but it works. In the printer directory it’s called “ColorPoster HP2500CP”. Printing posters can take a long time. Any number of unforeseeable and incredibly frustrating problems can arise (e.g., After waiting for 45 minutes for my poster to print, if finally did – without the graph in the results section!). Allow yourself time to print and to deal with these problems. Don’t plan to do it an hour before you need the poster! Things that will make your poster take longer to print include high resolution (above 300dpi) images, large areas of color, and not allowing yourself enough time to print. Don’t print multiple copies. Your poster’s not appearing instantaneously does not mean that it won’t print out…eventually. Remember, printing posters is expensive and we’ll all get mad at you for wasting funds (and paper!). If you run into problems, ask Susanna Douglas! Susanna Douglas – office: 2.312F, phone: 475-9744, e-mail: Douglas@psy.utexas.edu Step 7: Tips for presenting your poster. Bring tacks and tape to hang your poster. These may be provided, they may not – so be sure to have your own just in case! Print out 8 ½ * 11” copies to hand out. If people are really interested, they may ask if you have copies of your poster to hand out. Have a few on hand. You may also want to put your contact info (e-mail address) on these. Wear comfortable shoes. Poster presentations aren’t incredibly long, but they certainly seem like it if your feet hurt. Stand by, not directly in front of, your poster. Make sure people who might want to read the poster can! Don’t aggravate readers. Avoid being overly solicitous, even if you’re bored! Avoid constantly asking if they have questions, but be there to answer any questions they may have. Seem (and BE!) interested in talking to them about your work. Be prepared. Know your poster. Know your analyses and be able to explain them. Know why you chose to “attack” the problem you did in the way that you did. You may want to do a few trial runs of walking people (friends) through your poster and see what questions they come up with.