Poster Guidelines put into a Poster Format

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Poster Guidelines put into a Poster Format Tyler,
J.A and Biology Biotechnology Faculty
Files of the posters must not exceed 5 mb in
size. This one is only 360 kb.
1Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Biology and
Biotechnology
A great picture of Dave Adams
Methods
Results
Overview

• The methods section in a poster presentation
  should provide an overview of the techniques used
  in the project and the approach taken by the
  researcher(s).
• This section will differ most between a poster
  presentation and a typical scientific paper.
• Presenters should limit the detail of the
  techniques used and focus more on the approach
  taken and why that approach is the most
  appropriate for the questions being asked by the
  research project.
• Bullet points in posters should read as complete
  sentences so that the reader clearly understands
  what you, the poster writer, wants them to
  understand.
• Again, images of your techniques or lab setup can
  help with text in the Methods section and makes
  the poster more visually interesting.
• There are no images in this method section and
  you can tell that it is visually boring.

A scientific poster should read much like a
scientific paper or the outline to a scientific
paper. The poster should have the same major
sections as a paper including Abstract,
Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.
Bullet points or short sentences usually provide
the best means for presenting text.

• Data with statistics should be presented in
  easily understood tables, graphs and/or images.
• Text should explain what data appear in which
  tables/graphs/images and which experiments
  generated which data.
• Data interpretation should not appear in this
  section but should appear in the discussion.
• Generally, if you have a choice between
  presenting your data as a graph or a table,
  select graphs because they are more visually
  interesting.

Abstract

• Abstracts must be at least 80 words, but
  preferably between 150-200 words.
• Abstract must effectively summarize the research
  project including specific results.
• A good Abstract succinctly summarizes the work
  providing enough detail that the audience can
  understand the research and be able to assess if
  the research interests them.

• As much as possible, make graphs of equal
  importance the same size.
• Make those graphs that are more important larger.
• Fitting text around your graphs can make the
  poster read more easily.

Introduction
Please Note Posters must be submitted for
printing to the ATC by 500 PM on Thursday, April
16th, 2009 for Project Presentation Day.

• The introduction must provide sufficient
  background material for the audience to
  understand the goal of the research project and
  its value and importance in the context of the
  field.
• At the end of this section the audience should be
  able to understand why the researchers studied
  this problem and what questions the researchers
  aimed to answer.
• Pictures can help with your introduction and make
  the poster much more visually interesting. The
  picture to the right was used to show readers the
  location of a specific river.

Discussion

• Interpretation of the data and conclusions made
  from the data should be presented only in the
  discussion.
• For a poster a few short statements stating what
  the researchers concluded, why they arrived at
  those conclusions and the importance of the
  conclusions should provide a good Discussion.
• More than three or four bullet points in the
  Discussion typically is too many.

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Watershed Boundaries