Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Director, Communication across the Curriculum; Professor, English

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Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Director, Communication
across the CurriculumProfessor, English

• Designing Posters
• in Mathematics

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Just for fun
Source http//mathematicianspictures.com/
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Templates/Commercial Production
http//www.postersession.com/templates.html
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RESULTS
MATERIALS AND METHODS
BACKGROUND

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We hope you find this template useful! This one
is set up to yield a 48x48 poster when we print
it at 200. You can also use it for any poster
that needs to be square, and well scale it to
the size you need. Weve put in the headings we
usually see in these posters, you can copy and
paste and change to your hearts content! Weve
left our text in red so youll know what text you
have brought in, and be sure to get rid of
anything we put in. We suggest you use black text
against a light background so that it is easy to
read. Background color can be changed in
format-background-drop down color menu. The
boxes around the text will automatically fit the
text you type, and if you click on the text, you
can use the little handles that appear to stretch
or squeeze the text boxes to whatever size you
want. You can simply delete the lines by going to
format-colors and lines and selecting no
line. The dotted lines through the center of the
piece will not print, they are for alignment. You
can move them around by clicking and holding
them, and a little box will tell you where they
are on the page. Use them to get your pictures or
text boxes aligned together. How to bring things
in from Excel and Word Excel- select the chart,
hit edit-copy, and then edit-paste into
PowerPoint. The chart can then be stretched to
fit as required. If you need to edit parts of the
chart, it can be ungrouped. Watch out for
scientific symbols used in imported charts, which
PowerPoint will not recognize as a used font and
may print improperly if we dont have the font
installed on our system. Word- select the text
to be brought into PowerPoint, hit edit-copy,
then edit-paste the text into a new or existing
text block. This text is editable. You can change
the size, color, etc. in format-text. We suggest
you not put shadows on smaller text. Scans We
need images to be 72 to100 dpi in their final
size, or use a rule of thumb of 2 to 4 megabytes
of uncompressed .tif file per square foot of
image. For instance, a 3x5 photo that will be
6x10 in size on the final poster should be
scanned at 200 dpi. Remember that this template
is set up at half size, so anything that is 3x5
on the template will be 6x10 on the final
piece. We prefer that you import tif images into
PowerPoint. Images that are greater than 16
megabytes will show on the screen, but will not
print. JPEG files are OK, but if you can convert
them to tif we prefer it. The 16 mb limit applies
to the image size, and not the compressed file
size, of the JPEG. Preview To see your in
poster in actual size, go to view-zoom-200.
This is a good way to be sure your pictures are
going to look OK. Feedback If you have
comments about how this template worked for you,
email to sales_at_megaprint.com. We listen!
Call us at 800-590-7850 if we can help
in any way!

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Instructions from host
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Helpful Links

• http//www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posterad
  vice.htm
• http//cxc.lsu.edu students
  communication examples, tips, guidelines and
  more keyword poster

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Color

• Use a colored background (muted) or
• shades of gray to unify your poster
• Typically, use white as the background
• for text
• Black is best for text, except on graphs
• Dont use too much color--
• it can emphasize or detract

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Text

• Use a consistent font
• Set font size hierarchically for
• headings
• Avoid big blocks of prose
• Avoid the continuous use of
• CAPITALS

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Graphics

• Try to balance words and images
• Aim for readability from 6 feet away
• Use no more than three or four charts,
  figures,
• or tables
• Photographs should be relevant, mentioned in
• text as figures, or captioned
• Include clear labels and captions on all
  charts,
• figures, and tables

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Layout
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Sample Headings Health Sciences
Combination 1 Combination 1 Combination 2 Combination 2
Author/Title/Affiliation Objectives Data Sources Study Setting Study Design Data Collection Principal Findings Conclusions Funding Source Author/Title/Affiliation Objectives Methods Results Conclusions Funding Source
Combination 3 Combination 3 Combination 4 Combination 4
Context Objective Design Settings Participants/Subjects Intervention Main Outcome Measures Results Discussion Conclusions Funding Source Author/Title/Affiliation Introduction Research Question Background Importance Methods Study Sites Study Population Data Collection Data Analysis Findings Conclusions Implications Funding Source
Combination 5 Combination 5 Combination 6 Combination 6
Author/Title/Affiliation Background Methods Results Conclusions Funding Source Author/Title/Affiliation Research Objectives Background Study Design Results Conclusion Relevance Future Research Funding Source
Adapted from Health Services Module 590A,
Knowledge Management in the Health Sciences,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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CxC Visual Communication Criteria
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SAMPLE POSTER for discussion
Source Jacquelyn R. Hansen, MPH, International
Health Program, Department of Health Services,
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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Beauty of Mathematics
Sources http//www.arbelos.co.uk The Beauty of
Mathematics, poster collection, A.K. Jobbings,
2004 http//mathematicianpictures.com.
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Additional References
The Most Useful of All (from which this list was
taken) Purrington, C.B. 2006. Advice on
designing scientific posters. http//www.swarthmor
e.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm. Accessed
11/1/2006. Block, S. 1996. The DOs and DON'Ts
of poster presentation. Biophysical Journal
713527-3529. Briscoe, M.H. 1996. Preparing
Scientific Illustrations A Guide to Better
Posters, Presentations, and Publications, 2nd ed.
Springer-Verlag, New York. Day, R.A. 1994. How
To Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 4th ed.
Oryx Press, Phoenix. Keegan, D.A., and S.L.
Bannister. 2003. Effect of colour coordination of
attire with poster presentation on poster
popularity. Canadian Medical Association Journal
1691291-1292. Matthews, J.R., J.M. Bowen, and
R.W. Matthews. 1996. Successful Science Writing
A Step-by-Step Guide for the Biological and
Medical Sciences. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge. Pechenik, J.A. 2004. A Short Guide to
Writing about Biology, 5th edition. HarperCollins
College Publishers, New York. Rigden, C. 1999.
The eye of the beholderdesigning for
colour-blind users. British Telecommunications
Engineering 172-6. Tufte, E.R. 1983. The Visual
Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics
Press, Connecticut. Wolcott, T.G. 1997. Mortal
sins in poster presentations or, How to give the
poster no one remembers. Newsletter of the
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Fall10-11. Woolsey, J. D. 1989. Combating
poster fatigue how to use visual grammar and
analysis to effect better visual communications.
Trends in Neurosciences 12325-332.