A few things I know about poster presentations

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A few things I know about poster presentations

• Shaun Slattery
• available at http//condor.depaul.edu/sslatte1/
  presentations/

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3 levels

• Consulting helping FYP Writing Showcase
  participants
• Professional you might need this info
• Conceptual translating content across media,
  for different audiences and purposes

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Poster Presentations

• What are they?

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Poster Presentations

• Increasingly common
• _at_ conferences (ATTW and Computers Writing)
• other professional speaking engagements (job
  fairs, trade shows, etc.)

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The Rub

• Paper
• audience ?
• purpose ?
• context ?

• Poster Presentation
• audience ?
• purpose ?
• context ?

remediate!
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Helping Participants

• What are their main points?
• What of their text/story is showable? How might
  it be visualized?
• locations, people, artifacts, timelines,
  concepts, key sentences/phrases?
• Is there a story around the text? (e.g. How I
  wrote my paper)
• Other ideas?...

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Poster Presentations

• Use as little text as possible
• Visitors wont read much
• Text serves as talking points for presenter

One body of theoretical work that has proven
particularly useful in conceptualizing the use of
tools in the workplace has been Activity Theory.
Activity Theory useful for conceptualizing
workplace tool-use
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Poster Presentations

• Have a to go sheet,
• gives text of your poster more detail (and your
  contact info!)
• Example of mine
• also business cards

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Poster Presentations

• Create highlights text
• Separate slides for main argument, key findings,
  pull quotes, illustrated concepts
• Sample pull quote

Clay Spinuzzis recent work on compound
mediation describes how workers habitually
coordinate sets of artifacts to mediate or carry
out their activities. (2003, p. 98)
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Poster Presentations

• Sample pull quote

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Option 1

• Print n Paste PowerPoint Slides
• Mount slides w/ construction paper behind as
  background/drop-shadows
• Pros Easy to create, print, construct looks
  clean if well done holds up well
• Cons Limited layout options, less slick
• Heres a .PPT-based poster of mine from 2002.
  Looking back, Id cut the text by half!

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Option 2

• Giant 1-sheet
• Create poster as one, giant image
• Print on plotter and mount wholesale
• Pros More layout options, slick
• Cons Harder to create need special printer can
  wrinkle when mounted (esp. _at_ folds)
• Several examples here
• http//www.wide.msu.edu/poster_session

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Option 3.0

• Laptop supported
• Best if it supports, supplements poster
• Pros More presentation options (slideshow,
  video), slick
• Cons Harder to create physical requirements
  (power cord, lighting, etc.)

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Resources

• Cain Project in Engineering Professional Comm.
• http//www.owlnet.rice.edu/cainproj/gallery.html
  
• Creating Effective Poster Presentations
• http//www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/
• Advice on designing scientific posters
• http//www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/postera
  dvice.htm
• Creating Posters with PowerPoint
• http//meeting.asbcnet.org/callpapers/Powerpoint_
  posters.cfm

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