Poster needed for Disseration

Poster Presentation

· You are required to present your research in the form of a poster to interested parties

The Poster should be:

· Visually striking

· Handmade or printed

· Approx. 1,000 words of text, tables, graphs and pictures or illustrations

· Balance of images and text

· You should include the following:

· Title of project

· Research aims/ questions

· Methodology

· Findings

· Discussion/Conclusion (Limitations/Implications)

· References (Mentioned in poster)

· FONT AND SIZE:

· The font size you should use is dependent on the size of the poster. As a rough guideline:

· A0/A1 posters use a body text size of 24+, headings should be 48+.

· A3 posters might use size 14+ for body text and 34+ for headings.

TIPS ON POSTER:

· Analyse Task – academic posters are often based upon larger bodies of work, but the task of creating a poster itself needs to be carefully considered. Questions to be asked might include:

· What is the main message you are trying to convey?

· What is the purpose of the poster?

· Who is your target audience – specialists or a more general audience?

· Research – if your poster is based on another piece of work this will already have been done to some extent, but if not you may need to locate relevant sources, read background information and make notes.

· Plan content – the purpose of your poster will influence the content and the structure of the content. A typical research poster may include some of the following sections:

· Title

· Introduction

· Methods/Methodology

· Results

· Discussion

· Conclusion

· References

TEMPLATE

Library & Information Services have produced an A3 (more sizes coming soon) poster template that can be customised to suit your needs. It can be a good starting point for creating an academic poster, but it is only a suggested layout; you are encouraged to customise it to suit your needs.

The template can be downloaded from the Resources page of the IT Training website: study.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Help/Training/

LAYOUT:

· Use headings to group text – this makes your poster easier to read and digest.

· Format your headings in a consistent way – this creates a sense of unity and helps structure your content visually.

· Structure your content in a logical way –content neatly aligned into columns creates a visual narrative for your reader; they will tend to read down then across:

· Use white space and margins – plenty of white space makes your poster easier to read and improves the signal-to-noise ratio (the signal is your message, noise is anything that prevents your message from getting through, such as an abundance of text or unnecessary graphical elements). Margins give your text space to breath and can act as delimiters for the different sections of your poster.

· Sketch your poster before you begin to design it – a pencil and paper sketch of the poster’s layout may help you when creating the final design.