{"id":57735,"date":"2021-06-14T04:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=57735"},"modified":"2021-06-14T04:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T08:15:26","slug":"make-a-poster-it-may-also-help-you-write-a-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/make-a-poster-it-may-also-help-you-write-a-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a poster \u2013 it may also help you write a paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Academic posters. They are a thing. You can find academic posters at a lot of conferences. Ah, conferences. Remember when we had face to face conferences? Oh, that seems like a long time ago now \u2013 but when we had them, academic posters were often displayed in a separate conference room. Separate poster sessions may even have been timetabled \u2013 makers standing anxiously by their posters. Or the posters may have been cunningly positioned in the refreshments area to encourage conference attendees to browse.<\/p>\n

The need to encourage viewing is a clue to the status of the poster. Even though conferences give prizes for the best posters, they are often seen as a lesser form of communication than the conference paper. There are, I am told, some disciplines which think highly of posters, but I am not in one. In my field, the academic poster is a somewhat unloved scholarly child.<\/p>\n

However, the academic poster is, at its best, a neat and quick way to find out about research projects. The poster is shorter than a paper, can economically provide an argument and key supporting evidence, and often makes its point in a well-worded informative heading. Academic posters can do several communication tasks at once \u2013 attract viewers\/readers, inform them, and persuade them of the trustworthiness and significance of the work. Posters also support networking and can help to build the researcher\u2019s profile.<\/p>\n

You often see academic posters displayed in university buildings. Poster displays are a great way for visitors, students and peers to find out about the research that staff and doctoral researchers are doing. It is a bit pointless though if they are not updated regularly and they start to sage, tatter and get clearly out of date! Academic centres and schools that take on the poster-as-ornamentation need to keep on top of the task.<\/p>\n

Posters with this kind of conference after-life have both a specialist and a generalist audience. Even at conferences this may be the case. Poster information thus always needs to be assembled carefully. Making an academic poster is about clear and effective communication via a judicious choice of images, headings and texts. Posters also offer a chance to be a bit creative.<\/p>\n

There is a load of online advice about making academic posters. Some is very specific \u2013 like this \u2013<\/p>\n

Characteristics of a Scientific Poster<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This resource goes on to recommend fonts, font sizes, word lengths\u2026 You may not want to be so tightly prescribed.<\/p>\n

And there are debates about academic posters \u2013 check out Mike Morrison\u2019s video ( if you haven\u2019t already seen it) which suggests that we might want to throw the dominant poster designs and conventions out the window and do something more daring.<\/p>\n