| An Effective Poster | |||
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Create Your Poster
:: Planning :: Focus :: Layout :: Headings :: Graphics :: Text :: Colors :: Editing :: Software |
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Using this Site |
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Additional resources you might find useful when creating your poster.
| Hess, George R. 2004. Effective Scientific Posters: Quick Reference (Version 2) | ||
 QuickReference |
Meant to be printed as a one-sheet, folded brochure.
Download for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
You may reproduce and distribute freely (i.e., without charge) in unaltered form. |
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| 60-Second Evaluation - a quick way for students and professionals to evaluate the appearance and organization of their posters. This evaluation does not address the quality of the information. | ||
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Download 60-second evaluation criteria. |
| You may download and modify for your own use. Please attribute as shown in Reproducing Material . | ||
Evaluating Poster Presentations
| Evaluation criteria used by George Hess to evaluate graduate student poster presentations -- apprearance, information flow, and content. Could also be used to evaluate professional presentations. | |
| Score sheet (Excel) used by the Oregon State University Chapter of Sigma Xi. | |
| You may download and modify for your own use. Please attribute as shown in Reproducing Material . | |
Where to Print Posters
This information is provided as a courtesy - we do not endorse any of these printing services. In fact, we've never used them.
For NCSU faculty and students: University Graphics has a wide format printer that can handle 48" by up to 108" in PowerPoint or PDF format.
Internet Sites - May be Ephemeral
George Hess & Leon Liegel Effective Poster Presentation Site
www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/,
visited 2006 Aug 1
Kathryn Tosney's Effective Poster Presentation Site (U. Miami)
www.bio.miami.edu/ktosney/file/PosterHome.html,
visited 2006 Aug 1
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
www.siam.org/siamnews/general/poster.htm,
visited 2006 Aug 1
Swathmore College Biology Department
www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm,
visted 2006 Sep 20
Edward Tufte's Web Site (focus on visualizing data)
www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/,
visited 2006 Aug 1
Books and Articles
Block, Steven M. 1996. Do's and dont's of poster presentations.
Biophysical Journal 71: 3527-3529.
Briscoe, Mary Helen. 1996. Preparing Scientific Illustrations:
A Guide to Better Posters, Presentations, and Publications. Springer,
New York.
Davis, Martha. 1997. Scientific Papers and Presentations. Academic
Press, New York.
Gosling, Peter J. 1999. Scientist's Guide to Poster Presentations. Kluwer Academic Press, New York.
Harms, Michael. 1995. How to prepare a poster presentation. Physiotheraphy
81(5): 276.
Hess, George R. and Elizabeth N. Brooks. 1998. The class poster conference as a teaching tool. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 27: 155-158.
Liegel, Leon H. and Delbert Thompson. 1989. Poster presentations for scientific meetings. Journal of Agronomic Education 18: 69-75.
Nicol, Adelheid A. M. and Penny M. Pexman. 2003. Displaying your findings: a practical guide for creating figures, posters, and presentations. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Teixeira, Art. 1997. Preparing posters for technical presentations.
Resource 4(4): 15-16.
Tufte, Edward. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT.
Tufte, Edward. 1995. Envisioning Information.
Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT.
Tufte, Edward. 1997. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities,
Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT.
Wheildon, Colin. 1995. Type and Layout. Strathmoor Press, Berkeley, CA.
Woolsey, J.D. 1989.
Combating poster fatigue: How to use visual grammar and analysis to
effect better visual communication.
Trends in Neurosciences 12: 325-332.