Transcript 48x36 poster template

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
Results
• 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).
You might call this section “Findings”, “Evidence”, or “Results”. Whatever you call it, first lay out your
complete argument. If your argument has multiple parts, you can put them into separate “Findings”
boxes.
• Try to get at least 36 pt font in all text boxes.
• Try to get at least 36 pt font in all text boxes.
• Use bullet points or very short paragraphs.
• Use images, tables, or other non-text items wherever possible—they’re much easier to digest
than long stretches of text.
• Boxes will shrink or grow with the amount of text, and you can
move boxes around.
• This template will result in a 3’ x 4’ poster size, in portrait format.
• Use headings that best represent what you are putting in each
section. “Introduction”, “Research Objectives”, “Research
Question”, “Purpose” are all good headings for this section.
• For the introduction, explain what research question you’ve asked
and why people should care about it—in other words, the
significance.
“Sources”, “Materials and Methods”, “Methods”, or “Techniques” are good
headings for this section. If, for instance, you’ve compared themes in two
works of fiction, analyzed use of color in a painting, or dug through old issues
of The Emporia Gazette to answer a historical question, explain how you
chose these particular sources and what you did with them. If you’re applying
some sort of named technique, like feminist criticism, explain that technique.
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
Focus on readability. Avoid crowding at all costs. Maintain good contrast
and coordinating colors between fonts, background and images.
problem with this.
When finished, save or print the image as a PDF and
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” and “copy results” 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.
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.
e-mail it to the ID center for printing.
Use a different color/size font or text box
background to provide emphasis.
Keep things balanced and aligned. Enable
grids and guides under the View tab to
help. The “arrange” menu on the Home
tab also has useful commands for layout.
Conclusions
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.
• Use bullet statements
• Don’t simply repeat results!
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 subheadings for each source or technique used.
Be succinct: describe what WAS done. Don’t tell someone how to do it.
Design
Do not use gradient fill. Most of the large format printers will have a
• Some people put their abstract in this box, but since it is included in
the program it is not necessary to have it on your poster.
Sources
Results
• Focus on what the results imply—what you think it all means, directions for
additional research projects, how your findings varied from your initial hunch,
etc.
Do not enlarge pictures once they are inserted into your poster. Even if they look OK
on screen, they will not print well.
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.