1. Preparing and writing academic posters
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2. Academic posters
Academic posters are commonly used in academic environments to present research and promote discussion. Usually there will be many posters on display, often in a conference setting, and they act as an introduction to both you and your research. Academic posters are large format – usually A1 or A0, and they have many conventions associated with them
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3. Overview Get the academic content right.
Cut the text down to 300 – 500 words (unless your subject has specified a word count).
Format the type.
Prepare your images.
Design the layout.
Choose a colour scheme.
Check it – very carefully.
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4. Academic content
The academic content must be right, you need to ensure that you consider who your audience will be.
Specialist audience:
Experts in the same or very closely related field.
They will have a high level of knowledge of your subject.
It is acceptable to use jargon and technical terms on your poster.

5. Related audience:
Specialists in a related or overlapping field.
Familiar with the generalities of your discipline.
Be wary of specialist jargon – avoid where possible.
General audience:
Can only assume general knowledge.
No familiarity with your discipline or subject area.
Avoid use of jargon - use basic descriptions only.

6. How to cut down the text
The poster should tell the story of what your work is about, but it should not try to be a larger-sized version of the full write-up of your work.
It can be a larger version of your abstract, but it will be more than this because you can display visuals to support it.
You should make it easy for a person who is not familiar with the project to understand it quickly.
It’s a bit like a trailer for a movie, so you should try to highlight certain areas of your research in order to encourage people to find out more.

7. Format the type
When formatting the type for a poster, you need to remember two important principles:
Use consistent styles.
Group sections of the text appropriately.
You also need to think about line spacing and alignment:
Blocks of text in a small font can be made easier to read by increasing the line spacing.
Left justified text is the best alignment for the body of your poster. Fully justified type often creates confusing gaps in the text.

8. Further tips Use a maximum of two fonts for your poster.
Set the headings in bold.
Use italics, underlining and capitals sparingly.
Break up any large areas of text with sub- headings.
Remember that the text needs to be visible form 2 metres

9. Images can be pictures, charts or tables.
Prepare your images
Images can be pictures, charts or tables.
Pictures are made up of pixels. The ideal image resolution for posters is 300 pixels per square inch. Images copied from the internet are usually 72 pixels per square inch – so don’t use them!

10. Charts When making charts for posters think carefully about how:
When making charts for posters think carefully about how to format them. Keep them simple, enlarge the text and thicken the links. The default formatting provided by software is rarely appropriate so you’ll probably need to change it.
Similar principles apply to tables – think carefully about how you format them. Keep them simple and choose formatting that will make them easier to understand. Again, don’t necessarily accept the default formatting provided by your software.

11. Design the layout
The layout needs to be designed so that a person viewing your poster can easily understand the sequence of information.
Landscape poster.
Portrait poster.

12. Choose a colour scheme
Try to use only 2-3 different colours, including black, which is always the best for the smallest text.
There are 2 ways of choosing your colours – you can either use colours from your images, or use a colour wheel to get your colour scheme right.

13. Check it very carefully
Finally, you need to check your poster. You want to be sure that there are no mistakes before you spend money on printing
A good way to check your poster is to print it out in A4, preferably in colour, stick it on the wall and take a step back to look at it.
This will simulate more clearly how the real thing will be used and will help you find any errors.