{"id":13,"date":"2015-03-13T19:16:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/posters\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:16:46","slug":"guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/posters\/guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"paragraph_style_4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>General Poster Dogma<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">The following recommendations are meant to serve as general guidelines, because there are no set rules for designing a poster. Your primary goals should be to convey your project clearly and concisely in a visually appealing format that is readable from 1-1.5 meters away. In general, you should minimize the amount of text and non-essential details and emphasize graphical information.<\/p>\n<p>Prescribed Poster Workflow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Plan Ahead! Prepare your text, photos, graphs, maps and other content in advance using appropriate software. Assembling the poster in Illustrator or PowerPoint is the easy part.<\/li>\n<li>Keep everything together! Make a Folder on your workstation of choice and place all poster related files inside. And keep it backed up!<\/li>\n<li>Sketch a rough layout or design. Consult conference guidelines if applicable for dimensions and formats. Please note: ONLY 36\u201d paper rolls are available at Smith College.<\/li>\n<li>Please NO universal colored backgrounds! Ink is pricy. It\u2019s distracting and detracting.<\/li>\n<li>As they say an image is worth a thousand words. Try to keep text to a minimum. Use an image or graph to illustrate your point. Text on a poster should only be there to describe or label what the images or data are demonstrating (captions).<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph_style_4\">Keep main goal in mind: to have an aesthetic printable poster when finished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"paragraph_style_4\"><span class=\"style_2\"><strong><br \/>\nBare Essentials &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"style_3\">Items that should be included in your poster include:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_5\"><span class=\"style_4\"><strong>Title:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">The title of the presentation should be clearly visible. Use large letters, at least 4 cm tall (&gt;80 pt), in caps.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_5\"><strong><span class=\"style_4\">Author(s) name(s):<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"style_3\">&nbsp;These should be in a slightly smaller font size. Note that if other individuals supported your research, either technically or intellectually, you should include them as co-authors after your name. Your research mentor would definitely fall in this category. List the first author&#8217;s (probably you) last name, first name, middle initial and then the first name, middle initial, and last name of each co-author. Underline or bold the name of the person who will be presenting the poster at the symposium (again, probably you).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_5\"><strong><span class=\"style_4\">Author&#8217;s affiliation:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"style_3\">&nbsp;Include your department or program and institution. If your co-authors have different affiliations, place a superscript number after each author&#8217;s name and a corresponding superscript number before each author&#8217;s address. Again, the presenting author&#8217;s name should be underlined or in bold.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">Example:<span class=\"style_5\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">SPECTRAL ANALYSIS DEMONSTRATES THAT THE SKY IS BLUE<span class=\"style_3\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"style_6\">Jordan<\/span><span class=\"style_7\">1<\/span><span class=\"style_8\">, Michaela M<\/span><span class=\"style_6\">&nbsp;., and Deanna R. Smith<\/span><span class=\"style_7\">2<\/span><span class=\"style_6\">.<\/span><span class=\"style_5\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_8\">1Department of Big Science, Smith College,&nbsp;<span class=\"style_9\">2<\/span>Department of Recreation and Leisure, University of Hawaii<span class=\"style_5\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2\"><strong><span class=\"style_1\">Logos:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nA logo is a great way to graphically demonstrate college, university, agency, funding, or research group affiliations.&nbsp; Logos are generally placed in the upper right or left corners of a poster layout.&nbsp; Follow this link to download official&nbsp;<a title=\"Resources\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/posters\/resources\/\">Smith College logos<\/a>.<span class=\"style_5\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2\"><span class=\"style_1\"><strong>Body of the poster:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span>The body of your poster should provide a brief background to your project and your primary goals, the methods you used to complete your experiments, the results you obtained, and a discussion of your findings, and conclusions. Tables and figures should be included in the body of your poster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2\">The way in which you present this information is flexible.&nbsp; Keep the following guidelines in mind for clarity and easy readability.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"full-width\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">Limit the amount of text to convey only the essentials. If you wish, you can save more detailed information for an accompanying handout.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"full-width\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">Emphasize presenting your data visually using photographs, figures, or tables. Make sure that each graphic is referenced in your text (Fig. 1, Photo. 2, Table 1) and that each has a self-explanatory legend.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"full-width\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">Font size should be approximately 1 cm high (~22pt) and text should be double-spaced.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"full-width\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">Your poster background should be a uniform, neutral color so that it does not detract from your graphics and text.&nbsp; White is highly recommended!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Poster Dogma The following recommendations are meant to serve as general guidelines, because there are no set rules for designing a poster. 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