A poster is not merely an essay stuck onto a board, but rather, a visual presentation of your work or research that demonstrates the quality and significance of your findings.
Keep in mind the size of your poster to determine what/how much content information you will be able to include- and use the space you have wisely.
Some general content to be considered for your poster includes:
- Title
- Author & Institutional affiliation
- Introduction
- provide a brief overview of (for example) the reasons research was initiated and provide a background on the materials and methods used in the study
- Methods
- experimental methods used to accomplish the research
- Results
- a visual, graphical outline of the results of your work, using text only where needed.
- Conclusions
- a succinct summary of the conclusions you have derived from your work as well as a statement of the direction of any future work if relevant and appropriate.
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Make sure your references are presented in the correct format.
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