Better Posters: Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78427-235-7
Verlag: Pelagic Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 784 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faulkes, Zen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Faulkes, Zen
Zen Faulkes is a professor of biology. He has written the popular Better Posters blog for over eleven years.