How to Make an Academic Poster

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How to Make an Academic Poster
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What is an academic poster?

• A lot of academic conferences and meetings
  include poster presentations. They are visually
  attractive and help summarize complex information
  which is hard to understand just by listening.

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• An academic research poster involves a short text
  with graphs, pictures, tables, charts, and other
  visual items. Usually, the speaker presents
  information by the poster display and encourages
  the audience to the discussion.

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Why create an academic poster?

• With a poster, you can sum up your research into
  a succinct, eye-catching, and aesthetically
  attractive format. If you are not sure how to
  make an academic poster, read the following tips
  and be successful.

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• The best academic posters usually have
• a concise and short title which grabs audiences
  attention
• clear and easy-to-understand text
• it contains bullets, numbering, bright headlines

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• charts and tables are colorful and with proper
  fonts
• everyone can easily read information from 10 feet
  away
• the layout is clean and properly colored
• an academic poster contains your name and
  institutional affiliation.

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Where should you start?

• Ask yourself the following questions
• What are the most considerable/appealing/surprisin
  g results from my research?
• How can I present these findings visually? What
  charts or tables can I use to back up my
  arguments during the oral presentation?
• What information should I say that will go with
  my poster?

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Tools

• There are plenty of computers programs which can
  help you with creating an academic poster
  PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop,
  OpenOffice. Choose the most comfortable and make
  the very best poster.

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Design

• One of the main rules is you shouldnt include
  too many pictures, charts, etc. which can
  distract from the content. Besides, the text must
  be brief and up to the point claim one key idea
  rather than the whole sentence.

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Colors

• Make sure the text on slides can be easily read
  (choose proper colors in the background such as
  black and white, blue and yellow, etc.). Start
  with goals and objectives, proceed with methods,
  findings, and sum up with conclusions and
  references.

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• Ask as many people as possible to give you
  feedback on your academic poster. Find out
  whether it was easy for them to read from slides.
  Change formatting, if necessary.

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• Start making a poster in advance. You should have
  enough time for revisions. Check these academic
  posters examples to get an inspiration.

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Headings

• Make all headings bold and bright to catch the
  audiences attention. Dont make titles too long
  and wordy. It will definitely bore the reader who
  probably wont even read such a lengthy heading.
  So, make it up to the point and catchy.

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Introduction

• Start with the main aims of your projects, its
  objectives, and short background information.
  Explain why your work is unique and differentiate
  from many others in your field of study.

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Body of your poster

• Each section should include maximum 100 words.
  Too much lengthy poster wont make an impression
  on the readers. So, make it logical and concise.

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Methods

• This section should contain information about
  target sample, statistical techniques, how long
  did your research last, how you measured outcome,
  etc.

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Findings

• This section is about data analysis what youve
  got and whether you can prove or refute the
  hypothesis youve stated at the beginning.

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Tables and figures

• It is a great idea to include in your poster
  pictures, charts, tables to make it visually more
  attractive. Make them colorful and easy to
  understand. These figures can both add new
  information or graphically present what youve
  already stated in your poster.

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• Before printing your poster, make sure all colors
  are proper. Printed version usually differs from
  the one on the computer screen. So, check colors
  in advance where youre planning to print your
  piece. More information you can find in this
  Google book.

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• Want to know more?
• Check
• academicposter.net
• right away!