Please cite this website as ... Hess, GR, L Liegel, & K Tosney. 2022. Creating Effective Poster Presentations. URL=https://go.ncsu.edu/posters.
Quick Reference & Presentation
Meant to be printed as a one-sheet, folded brochure. You may reproduce and distribute freely (i.e., without charge) in unaltered form.
A PowerPoint show. I've used various versions for workshops through time. Looses something without the narration, but some people might find it useful.
Write an Effective Abstract
Here are some resources from the American Society of Agronomy (with permission) to help you write more effective abstracts (and papers, too). This stuff may be old (2002), but it still holds.
Checklist & Sample Abstract: a one-pager that focuses on the qualities of a good abstract. You'll need to adapt this to your field, but the overall philosophy holds.
Be a Better Author: a two-page piece that deals with abstracts and writing in general, from the Jan/Fen 2002 issue of Agronomy Journal.
60 Second Review - a quick way for students and professionals to evaluate the appearance and organization of their posters. This evaluation does not address the quality of the information.
Judging criteria and form used by the North American Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology to evaluate oral and poster presentations for best student presentation competition. Developed by George Hess and the North American IALE Board (2010).
Websites - May be Ephemeral
Block, Steven M. 1996. Do's and dont's of poster presentations. Biophysical Journal 71: 3527-3529.
Briscoe, Mary Helen. 1996. Preparing Scientific Illustrations: A Guide to Better Posters, Presentations, and Publications. Springer, New York.
Davis, Martha. 1997. Scientific Papers and Presentations. Academic Press, New York.
Flaherty, Colleen. 2019. #BetterPoster. Inside Higher Ed, viewed 2022 May 27.
Gosling, Peter J. 1999. Scientist's Guide to Poster Presentations. Kluwer Academic Press, New York.
Harms, Michael. 1995. How to prepare a poster presentation. Physiotheraphy 81(5): 276.
Hess, George R. and Elizabeth N. Brooks. 1998. The class poster conference as a teaching tool. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 27: 155-158.
Liegel, Leon H. and Delbert Thompson. 1989. Poster presentations for scientific meetings. Journal of Agronomic Education 18: 69-75.
Nicol, Adelheid A. M. and Penny M. Pexman. 2003. Displaying your findings: a practical guide for creating figures, posters, and presentations. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Teixeira, Art. 1997. Preparing posters for technical presentations. Resource 4(4): 15-16.
Tufte, Edward. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT.
Tufte, Edward. 1995. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT.
Tufte, Edward. 1997. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT.
Wheildon, Colin. 1995. Type and Layout. Strathmoor Press, Berkeley, CA.
Woolsey, J.D. 1989. Combating poster fatigue: How to use visual grammar and analysis to effect better visual communication. Trends in Neurosciences 12: 325-332.