Transcript 48x36 poster template - Emporia State University

TITLE SHOULD BE ALL CAPS AND AROUND 75 FONT
Author’s names should be around 62 pt font
Emporia State University, Department of [enter department name here]
Introduction
• The flow of your poster should be from top left to the bottom right.
The movement of the eye over the poster should be natural (down
columns or along rows).
• Use headings that best represents what you are putting in this
section. “Introduction”, Research Objectives”, Experimental
Question”, “Purpose” are all good headings for this section.
• Try to get at least 36 pt font in all text boxes.
• Some people put their abstract here, but since it is included in the
program it is not necessary to have it on your poster.
Results
Fonts
Be consistent in your use of fonts ! Use copy format tool to ensure consistency, especially when copying
in from other sources.
Graphs
Use “paste special” when copying and pasting charts and graphs from excel as photos. Otherwise you
will link the file and it will create problems with saving and printing. Create the graph and format it for
fonts and overall size in the graphing program before copying.
Tables
Create and import as a picture or use Powerpoint Table.
• Use bullet points or very short paragraphs
Results
Design
Focus on readability. Avoid crowding at all costs. Maintain good contrast
and coordinating colors between fonts, background and images.
Do not use gradient fill. Most of the large format printers will have a
problem with this.
When finished. Save or print the image as a PDF and e-mail it to the ID
center for printing.
Use a different color/size font or text box
background to provide emphasis.
• This box shrink or grow with the amount of text.
• This template will result in a 3’ x 4’ poster size, in portrait format.
• You can move boxes around.
Methodology
“Materials and Methods”, “Methods”, “Experimental Design”, ‘Study Design”
“Data Collection” ‘methodology” are good headings for this section
Use subheadings for each experimental technique
Images
Pictures for use on a poster should be scanned or taken at 300 dpi at >100% of the
size that they will appear on the poster.
Pictures imported from web sites are low resolution images. These images are made
for onscreen presentations and web page use only. They should not be imported
directly to a poster.
Keep things balanced and aligned. Enable
grids and guides under the “view” tab to
help.
Conclusions
Be cautious about stretching images or making them significantly larger than their
original size. Instead use images scanned or taken at a size specifically to fit you
poster needs (i.e. 150 dpi scanned at 100% of the size to appear on the poster).
• Use bullet statements
Do not enlarge pictures once they are inserted into your poster. Even if they look OK
on screen, they will not print well.
• Focus on what the results imply what you think it all means
• Don’t simply repeat results !
Be succinct, describe what WAS done. don’t tell someone how to do it.
Subheading 2
Insert your text here. You can change the font size to fit your text.
You can also make this box shrink or grow with the amount of text. Simply
use the sliders to lengthen or shorten the box
Subheading 3
If you need to decrease the size of an imported picture or logo, hold down the Shift
key on your keyboard and then click and drag with your mouse on one of the corners
in order to scale it proportionally. This will keep it from being distorted.
Number each graph or picture as Figure 1, Figure 2 etc. and include a caption for
each.
Acknowledgements
Insert your acknowledgements here. Include all research funding sources and people that
contributed to this work.