Guides: Posters: Preparation checklist

Content

Focus your poster on two or three key points.
Adapt materials to suit your targeted audience.
Paraphrase descriptions of complex statistical methods. Describe direction and magnitude of associations.
Spell out acronyms if used.
Replace large, detailed tables with charts or small, simplified tables.
Accompany tables or charts with bulleted major findings.
Use confidence intervals, p-values, symbols, or formatting to denote statistical significance.

Organise the poster into sections: background, methods, results, discussion, study implications, conclusion.
Divide the material into vertical sections/columns on the poster.
Use appropriate font sizes on your poster: at least 14-point type in the body of your poster, at least 40-point for the title.

Summarise your research objectives and main findings in a three to four sentence overview.
Write short modular descriptions of specific elements of the poster to choose among in response to viewers' questions. Practise being a third party in viewing your poster and anticipate possible questions that you might be asked.
Write a few questions to ask viewers. Incorporate their input on refining your poster for the next presentations or future use.
Develop additional questions for later analysis

Prepare handouts to distribute to interested viewers.
Print slides from presentation software, several to a page.
Include an abstract or executive summary with a few key tables or charts and contact information.

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