Poster Presentations
Poster sessions are frequently used as a means to convey information in a brief format in classrooms, conferences and symposia, and workshops. Designing effective poster presentations is an art unto itself. This guide provides resources to make the process easier.

"It takes intelligence, even brilliance, to condense and focus information into a clear, simple presentation that will be read and remembered. Ignorance and arrogance are shown in a crowded, complicated, hard-to-read poster." Mary Helen Briscoe

Introduction
Posters provide a mechanism to facilitate the rapid communication of ideas. The poster presentation is NOT the pasting of a scholarly article on poster board or foam-core and standing by to defend the results reproduced in miniature on the "poster." However, it is far too often that one attends a conference poster session and finds this format to dominate the method of poster presentations.

The poster presentation should represent a “...well-designed, eye-catching, and engaging... display of research or scientific information.” The poster should convey the results of scholarly activities as to promote the achievements of the poster's presenter.

This guide provides an inventory of print and Internet resources that provide guidance and instruction for the presentation of information in the form of a poster presentation. This guide includes information resources in the forms of journal articles, books, book chapters, and Internet sites that focus on the planning, design, construction, and presentation of a scholarly poster.

This guide was created by Fred Stoss at University of Buffalo.  More information including poster instructions, layouts, and examples can be found at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/bio/posters.html .

Other Resources:

SSD Poster Presentation Guidelines
How to Create a Poster
Sample Posters