Further Resources on Creating a Poster

Creating Better Presentations: Creating Posters
http://www.easternct.edu/smithlibrary/library1/presentations.htm#posters
This list of sites features links to poster design and creation tips, and several poster examples.

Creating Effective Poster Presentations: Create Your Poster: Planning
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/CreatePosterPlanning.html
This revised site provides instructions for step-by-step development of effective posters and offers great examples of posters done for research. The authors address planning and development, software options, formatting and layout. In addition, poor poster techniques are discussed.

How to Make a Great Poster
http://www.aspb.org/education/poster.cfm
Design suggestions regarding layout, formatting, and color selection are shared on this American Society of Plant Biologists education site.

How to Make a Poster? Posters Have Advantages Over Talks!
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/users/tmbm99/poster.html
This site provides reasons for creating a poster to present research, and discusses formatting considerations.

Introduction: Poster Sessions
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/index.cfm
This university writing guide is a great place to start when faced with a poster assignment. Straight-forward instructions and guidance along with examples and additional resources steer tenderfeet and veterans in effective design.

Poster and Podium Presentation
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~nur390-c/crow/Mod4/poster/lesson.html
From the Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, this site discusses the presentation of a research report, describes two means of presenting research at a professional meeting, explores steps in publishing a journal article, and reinforces the responsibility for preparing a research report for a grant-funded study.

Poster Presentation of Research Work
http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/Dept/Tips/present/posters.htm
A textual description of how to plan and deliver a poster presentation (compiled by the Chemical and Process Engineering Department at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne [U.K.]).

Poster Presentations for the Social Sciences
http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/resources-template.php?id=52
A 22-slide PowerPoint presentation highlights the significant features of a well-assembled poster session, from font and formatting to graphics, textual content and construction.

Preparing Professional Scientific Posters
http://www.ce.umn.edu/~smith/supplements/poster/guide.htm
This poster minicourse provides a bullet list for start-to-finish poster design guidance.

Tips for Effective Poster Presentations
http://www.osti.gov/em52/workshop/tips-exhibits.html
The U.S. Department of Energy site provides a rather comprehensive document series on effective poster design, including a Guidelines for Preparation of Online Poster Presentations http://www.osti.gov/em52/workshop/em52-gl.html

Advice on Designing Scientific Posters
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
This comprehensive resource introduces the poster concept, defines the different sections found on a poster, and provides a bibliography. Several examples are shown.