How to Give a Poster Presentation

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How to Give a Poster Presentation

• CURO Symposium Workshop

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Outline

• Basic Rules of CURO Presentation
• Purpose and Audience
• Content and Organization
• Visual Presentation
• Oral Presentation of Poster
• PRACTICE
• How to Make a Poster in PowerPoint

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Basic Rules of CURO Presentation

• Poster size no larger that 56 X 40
• Readable 3 ft away
• Title at least 2 high
• Author(s), faculty advisor, institution must be
  1 high
  
• Bring pushpins or Velcro to mount

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Purpose and Audience

• CURO purpose multidisciplinary forum to share
  research
  
• YOUR purpose to share your research in this
  forum
  
• To achieve YOUR purpose, you must convey your
  research to the multidisciplinary forum (general
  audience)

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Content

• Title
• Authors and institution
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Results (Charts/figures/graphs)
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

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Organization
Start at left-hand side and place information in
order from left to right
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Organization
Abstract at center and data/results throughout
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Introduction and Background

• Introduction
• State of the field OR context of topic
• Terminology and vocabulary
• Questions addressed by research
• Background
• All relevant information needed to understand
  questions
  
• Purpose and significance of research
• Hypothesis

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Hypothesis or Thesis

• Central point around which your presentation
  pivots
  
• Clear and concise statement
• Ifthen statements
• Question
• Topic/comment

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Methodology

• Present as few experiments at a time as possible
• Clear description of the methods used to obtain
  results
  
• All pertinent information to experimental
  procedure is given
  
• Purpose
• Controls
• Independent/dependent variables
• Unimportant conditions or variables are excluded

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Results and Conclusions

• Results
• Concise description of results/conclusions
• Graphical/visual representation with appropriate
  labels
  
• Conclusions
• Answer questions asked in introduction
• Relate results/conclusions with hypothesis
• Identify new questions created by your research

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Visual Representation

• Clear and easy to follow
• Readable
• Label everything (text and figures)
• Try to use figures/charts/graphs as much as
  possible
  

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Oral Presentation of Poster

• Have short summaries prepared for those who
• Ask about your research
• Ask to be walked through your poster
• Be prepared to answer questions

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Practice, Practice, Practice!

• Make sure layout flows
• Practice with live audience
• Get feedback
• Answer questions
• Practice with poster behind you

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Things to Remember

• You are the expert on your research
• Its okay to say I dont know
• You may postulate, but be careful
• Special thanks to
• Patrick Curtis
• Geneva DeMars
• Emily DeCrescenzo Henriksen

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How to Make Your Poster

• Run PowerPoint
• Select Blank Presentation and Layout
• Set poster size (File- Page Setup)

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How to Make Your Poster

• 4. Put in title, author, and institution with
  text box
  
• 5. Layout poster

Your title is here and at least 2 inches high
Author and Institution, 1 inch high
Abstract
Intro
Charts/figures of results
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How to Make Your Poster

• 6. Import text and figures to fill in your
  layout
  
• 7. Check for continuity and ERRORS!
• All titles same size font all subtitles, etc.
• All figures have legends
• Consistent color coding, if used
• Consistent terminology for things and ideas
• 8. Align and distribute items evenly
• 9. Group poster as one item
• 10. Print and practice!

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Some PowerPoint Tips

• Use the Group and Align features
• Found under the Draw menu at the bottom
  left-hand corner of the screen
  
• Group
• groups selected objects together, allowing you to
  adjust the entire group rather than individual
  objects one-at-a-time (if you want to move the
  objects or color the objects, etc.)
• Align
• will align selected objects a great way to make
  objects even with each other

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