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- Elements of a poster
- Title
- Introduction(hypothesis)
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements(optional)
- References( use short in text citations instead of a section)
- Guidelines for Poster Design
- Should appeal to your audience
- Text should be large enough for far reading
- Should be easy to follow
- Easy to understand
- Text should be simple
- Planning the poster
- Determine the size and sketch it
- Develop a hierarchy of information(start from general to specific)
- Paper size must be the same for both poster and the design software
- Selecting fonts and text
- Use no more than three fonts
- Write titles in “sentence case’ instead of ‘title case’ or ‘ALL CAPS”
- Use at least 48 point for titles and 24 point font for body text
- Aim to have 800 words max
- Cite Your sources
- Make sure to provide empty space between each information (40% graphic ,35% empty space, 25% text)
- Making the poster
- QuarkXPress,InDesign,LaTex,Scribus,Illustator
- Save your poster to PDF
- Marvin will print out the poster for us, but we need to review it before we hand it to him
