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Technical and Media Services : Symposium Poster
Checklist
Do not be fooled into thinking that
presenting a poster is the "easy way out"—because
it isn't. A number
of steps are involved in completing a poster as the following
outlines:
Complete your written
SIP.
One will be greatly aided in
having a manuscript already written. With this step
completed, one will only need to be concerned with organizing
and selecting/synthesizing the information to present.
Synthesize the information
to be presented on the poster.
Many students fail to realize
that the poster session also requires a presentation to accompany
the poster. Hence, the poster may not necessarily contain
all the work that was done on the project.
Organize the information
in a manner that tells a story of the project.
Students
give a short presentation during the poster session, so think
of the material that
can be utilized in order to "tell the story" of
the research conducted. Moreover, a poster should stand
by itself—meaning that an observer should be able to
understand the poster without the presence of a presenter.
Organize the
material of the poster into headings.
The following are examples of headings used
by past poster presenters.
• Introduction
• Previous Studies
• Aim of the Study
• Materials and Methods
• Summary
• Discussion
• Conclusion
Visual Elements
A poster is a visual presentation
and should be appealing to one's eye. The following
are some ideas to consider in designing a poster.
- Redesign your figures by simplifying,
enlarging, color-coding etc.
- Rewrite your captions so they have
the correct figure number, and make the figure clear to
a viewer who has not read your SIP.
- Decide on your layout and the colors
to be used.
- Follow the guidelines given in the
handouts from the department.
- Lay out the figures so that a viewer's
eyes will naturally go from one part to the next (e.g.
introductions top left, figures 1, 2, 3 across the top,
figures 4, 5, 6 across the middle, conclusion bottom right
corner).
- Title, texts and figures need margins
and/or borders.
- Another important point to remember
- posters must be visually pleasing. Lines and figures
must be straight, and lined up with each other, margins
and/or borders must be even and the same for all figures.
- Simplify the explanation of your SIP
so that the viewer can follow along on the poster. Many
parents and members of the community come to the poster
session, so be prepared to explain your SIP to them.
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