Logistics
Each participant
will get a space on the wall (not canvas covered partitions). This space is
6 feet wide, and about 4 feet high. Because this is a wall and not a canvas-covered
partition, tacks are NOT ALLOWED. All posters will be secured using
only 3M
Command Adhesive Poster Strips which still protect both the wallpaper
and the posters. Because of these special circumstances, we will supply all
participants with these Poster Strips.
Format
Attached is
a sketch of what your finished poster might look like on the wall. For people
that have never presented posters before, here is a brief description.
The poster should contain a title, abstract, method, and results section--just
like a paper would. There are sort of 3 ways to do a poster presentation:
1) print out 8.5x11 pieces of paper with this information on it
in a font big enough to read from a few feet away and arrange these pieces of
paper on the wall (so maybe, abstract on one page, method on another, graphs on
another....)
2) print
out 8.5x11 pieces of paper with this information on it in a font big enough to
read from pretty far away and actually attach the papers together (to
simulate a much larger sheet of paper), then arrange these big pieces of paper
on the wall (so maybe, abstract on several pages, method on another couple
pages, graphs on another....)
3) give all your stuff to a copy center and have them create an
actual, enormous poster and then attach this one, large poster to the wall.
Sometimes
people will mount their papers in options 1 and 2 onto cardboard or mat board
for rigidity or to make it look nicer. This is completely optional.
Scroll down to the next page to see an example of what a poster should
look like:
Title of My Poster
John Doe, University of Chicago
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(Represents a 4X6 space on the wall)