Better posters : plan, design, and present a better academic poster

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    • Faulkes, Zen

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Better posters : plan, design, and present a better academic poster

Zen Faulkes

Pelagic Pub., c2021

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Better posters : plan, design, and present an academic poster

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-293) and index

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Description

Better posters mean better research. Distilling over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog, Zen Faulkes will help you create a clear and informative conference poster that delivers maximum impact. Academics have used posters to share research for more than five decades, and tens of thousands of posters are presented at conferences every year. Despite the popularity of the format, no in-depth guide has been available on how to create and deliver compelling conference posters. From over-long titles, tiny text and swarms of logos, to bad font choices, chaotic colour schemes and blurry images - it's easy to leave viewers confused about your poster's message. The solution is Better Posters: a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know - from writing a title and submitting an abstract, to designing the poster and finally presenting it in the poster session. Your conference poster will be one of your first research outputs, and the poster session is your first introduction to a professional community. Making a great poster develops the skills to create publications, reports, outreach and teaching materials throughout your career. This book also has material for conference organizers on how to make a better poster session for their attendees.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Echo Rivera Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Poster design: the short form Part I - For viewers 2 Attending a poster session Part II - For presenters 3 Why posters? 4 Design thinking 5 Early preparation 6 Narrative thinking 7 Visual thinking and graphic design 8 Figures 9 Presenting data 10 Colors 11 Beyond paper 12 Text and type 13 Layout 14 Grids 15 Background 16 Title bars 17 Blocks of text 18 Sections 19 Images and graphics, revisited 20 Fine-tuning 21 Before you print 22 Printing 23 Travel 24 Networking and presentation 25 After the conference Part III - For organizers 26 Poster session planning 27 Conference website resources 28 During the conference Part IV - What next? 29 Constant improvement Afterword References Index

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