Poster Design Guidelines

If you would rather not present your research in front of the class, you can create a poster of your research. You will get extra credit points for doing this. Below are guidelines for making the poster.

Poster Design Guidelines

Use a crisp, clean, and strong title.

Do not tell the entire research history.

Present only enough data to support your conclusions and show the originality of the work.

The best posters display a succinct statement of major conclusions at the beginning, followed by supporting text in later segments and a brief summary at the end.

All posters should feature a title, your name, and the name of the institution where the research was performed and should credit others, as appropriate.

The title lettering should be about 2” to 3” (5” to 7.5”) with subheadings ½” to 1” high (1.25 to 2.5 cm).

All lettering should be legible from about 5 feet (1.5m) away. Text material should be approximately 24 points (1/4”/.625cm).

Covert tabular material to graphic display, if possible.

Use color to add emphasis and clarity.

Make illustrations simple and bold.

Displayed materials should be self-explanatory.

 

Handouts of your abstract should be available for interested viewers.