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Academic Posters
Workshop
Dr. Aoife Lenihan
Regional Writing Centre
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Workshop Content
Introductions
Practicalities
Design Principles & Content
Analysing Posters & Examples
Beyond the Poster
Poster Activity
Resources
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Workshop Attendees…
Introductions
Your research
Poster research / focus
Poster experience?
Workshop goals
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Practicalities
What is an academic poster?
Size (A1??)
Orientation – portrait / landscape
File format (ppt, pdf)
Printing
Display
Predetermined content
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Design Principles
Audience
Visual impact
Colour(s)
Font
Images, etc
Spacing
Content
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Cleary (2008)
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Lenihan (2011)
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UL Corridors
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Examples / Poster Analysis
Is this poster visually appealing?
How effective is the layout?
How is colour used on the poster?
Is space used effectively on the poster?
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Beyond the Poster
Talking about your research
Handout(s) / abstract / summary
Contact details
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Activity: Writing an abstract
Brown’s 8 questions (Murray, 2005:108-114)
Framework to help you draft an abstract
Allows you to see the paper as a whole and
focus on the main points of the argument
Written at an early stage in the writing process, it
helps you maintain the main focus as you write
the paper.
Revise it as you go.
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Brown’s 8 questions
1. Who are the intended readers? (3-5 names)
2. What did you do? (50 words)
3. Why did you do it? (50 words)
4. What happened? (50 words)
5. What do the results mean in theory? (50 words)
6. What do the results mean in practice? (50 words)
7. What is the key benefit for readers (25 words)
8. What remains unresolved? (no word limit)
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Questions?
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Resources/Bibliography
Resources
http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign
https://connect.le.ac.uk/posters
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/poster
https://www.aep.cornell.edu/aep/upload/Scientific-Posters-
2013NEWsm.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJwcVWszLC4
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~schne006/tutorials/poster_design/assess_
01.htm
More examples:
http://readingdigitalfiction.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/poster_fin.p
df
https://www.academia.edu/1697236/Facebook_Investigating_Lang
uage_Policy_in_the_New_Media_Poster_