Transcript Poster Presentations - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Poster Presentations
Poster
Presentation
Procedure
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What is a poster session?
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Science fair for grown ups
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Why have poster sessions?
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Efficiency!
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What is the purpose of poster
presentations?
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Overt – sharing of research
Covert – Networking!
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Creating collegiality/connections among
practitioners
Fishing for graduate students and post docs
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The three parts of posters
prep are?
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Creating a Successful Poster
Preparing the “Presentation”
Knowing the Procedure
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Posters are made for the eyes.
The poster is a
of your research. The audience is on the
move, not sitting still. Thus, visual appeal
is critically important.
BALANCE Text and Graphics.
Most common error of new poster makers: too much text that is too small to read
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Creating the Poster: prep
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Prepare Text
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Title + Affiliation
Abstract (use all)
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
For IMRD, write a
short text and
bulleted points
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Choose Graphics
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Background image
that matches theme
of research
All of or excerpt of
survey/s
Graphs of key
results
Relevant photos
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Creating the Poster: layout
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Overall layout of poster depends on what
you want to convey to audience
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What it most important?
What is most persuasive?
Great Web-based help:
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Michael Alley-- http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/posters.html
Colin Purrington -http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign
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Creating the Poster: design &
process
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3 or 4 “panel” design with several ways to
organize poster
Use PowerPoint
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Sketch out by hand first
Set slide size in Page Set up for 44” (width) x
36” (height) (or whatever poster session requires)
Lay out whole poster using text boxes with 15%20% (or whole page) “view”
Enlarge to 25%-50% to work on individual parts
Save frequently!
Check whole poster for balance before printing
Print in CSE lab or Arch lab for $12 -8
Posters require performance.
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Yes, Virginia, there is still a “presentation”!
But it’s…
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Conversational – “chatting” about your research
where you are the expert
YET…
 Still a Dialogue – cannot hog the floor
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Presenting the Poster: prep
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PRIME DIRECTIVE:
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For each section of your work, be able to
answer the wh-questions: who, what,
when, why, where, how
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Presenting the Poster: prep
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Prepare and Practice a 45-60 second
response to the killer* question: “So, tell me
about your research”. One sentence each:
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Topic + significance of topic
Research Question
Methods
Results
Discussion
* the preeminent fishing question!
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Presenting the Poster: killer
question example
Given the rate of divorce [TOPIC] which is about 50% of all marriages
[SIGNIFICANCE], I wanted to examine whether young people
believe that living together before marriage enhances the chance
of marital success [RESEARCH QUESTION]. I designed a
questionnaire which included some yes/no questions, some likert
scale questions, and a semantic differential which I then distributed
to a college population [METHOD]. Overall, participants revealed an
interesting contrast between a fairly high acceptance of
cohabitation as positive for many aspects of a relationship such as
working out household duties and increasing intimacy while still
having some doubts about the desirability of a mate who'd lived with
former partners [RESULT]. This suggests that among young
unmarried people, beliefs about cohabitation are actually pretty
similar to beliefs about marriage -- where men and women prefer to
live with someone who is committed to the relationship but who hasn't
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had too many previous live-in relationships [DISCUSSION].
Presenting the Poster: Qs
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Plan for other open-ended questions:
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What is most important/significant about
your research?
What should happen next?
How does this relate to the field?
Any practical applications?
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Steps for success include:
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Bring 20-50 copies of handout with copy of
poster on one side (color if you can afford it)
and brief summary of project, short list of
sources, and your contact info on the other
Other material if applicable (copy of survey
instrument, brochures, etc).
Stand next to poster and smile!
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Presenting Posters:
questions?
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Qs?
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