UGC NET Paper 1 Mathematical Reasoning & Aptitude.pdf
Mdposterpresent
1. Designing a Scientific
Poster
Maggie Dickinson
Macaulay Instructional Technology Fellow
Queens College
(With slides borrowed from fellow ITF’s Russell Hogg and Craig Willse)
2. Today’s Goals:
1. Understand project expectations
2. Learn the basics of poster design
3. Determine elements of successful poster design
3. What’s a Scientific
Poster, Anyway?
Visual means for communicating research to
an academic or professional community.
It is a summary of research that serves to
create interest by highlighting most important
findings.
4.
5. Requirements
Each group must produce one poster.
Posters can be made with Keynote,
PowerPoint or Illustrator.
Poster dimensions must be 48” x 36” (or
vice versa).
6. Due Dates
First Draft due in class November 17
Final Version printed by December 5
Poster presentations at Macaulay December 6-8
9. Design Matters:
Images should guide the overall layout, not the text.
Avoid cluttering the poster (graphs, photos, etc.).
Watch your color contrasts.
Make sure all components are aligned properly.
Use some kind of underlying structure!
13. Text : Less is More
Teeth are ideal for Teeth & Life
studying life history History
because they grow Incremental growth
incrementally, are not Not remodeled
remodeled during an Resistant to environmental
stress
individual’s
lifetime, and are not
highly subject to
environmental
stresses.
14. How to Use Text:
Break text up with bullets or numbers. (Hint: This
slide)
Indenting shows subordination
- Like this, see?
Avoid lengthy paragraphs that give far too much detail,
like talking about why you did what you did and
whether you dislike positivism because there is such a
thing as reality out there and it operates in a certain way
and we should be able to access that in some shape,
form, or fashion and besides it’s all from some stuffy
old dead guy thinking too hard, anyway.
15. How to Use Text:
Make sure your font colors stand out against the
background.
Use fonts people can read!
- Titles & headings should be 40 to 70 pt.
- Body text should never be less than 14 pt.
Be consistent with colors and use them to guide the
reader.
- E.g., you could use one color for headings, another
for body text.
25. Resources for Poster Design
• Apple tutorial for making a scientific poster:
http://www.apple.com/science/productivitylab/#researchposter
• “Advice on designing scientific posters” (Swarthmore
College) http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/poster
advice.htm“Do’s and Don’ts of Poster Presentation”
• “Do’s and Don’ts of Poster Presentation” (The American
Society for Cell
Biology) http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=112&id=1607
&tcode=nws3
• “Creating Effective Poster Presentations” (North Carolina State
University) http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/
Editor's Notes
Pavlov, often referred to as one of the founding figures of behavioral psychology and a Nobel prize winner, is best known for his development of the concept of “classical conditioning”. What most people don’t know is that he wasn’t the first person to discover that the dogs would begin to salivate at the sound of the bell, even if there was no food present, if you always ring a bell right before you feed them. Another researcher had presented these same findings ten years before in a paper given at the University of Pennsylvania. Nobody knows this persons name, even though he presented basically the same data as Pavlov and well before him. Even though Pavlov wasn’t the first researcher to discover this phenomenon, he was the first person to successfully demonstrate its significance for understanding human and animal behavior. All this is to say, presentation matters. The same data in the hands of two different researchers meant obscurity for one and enduring fame for the other. What you say is important, but how you say it and how you show its relevance to others is just as important.