Better Posters - Pelagic Publishing

Better Posters

Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster

  • Distils over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog
  • Guidance on every aspect of poster creation and presentation
  • Heavily illustrated with examples of posters from the author and other contributors
    £30.00
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    Tags:
    • career development
    • conference
    • graphic design
    • higher education
    • poster
    • professional development
    • research

    Description

    Better posters mean better research.

    Distilling over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog, Zen Faulkes will help you create a clear and informative conference poster that delivers maximum impact.

    Academics have used posters to share research for more than five decades, and tens of thousands of posters are presented at conferences every year. Despite the popularity of the format, no in-depth guide has been available on how to create and deliver compelling conference posters. From over-long titles, tiny text and swarms of logos, to bad font choices, chaotic colour schemes and blurry images – it’s easy to leave viewers confused about your poster’s message.

    The solution is Better Posters: a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know – from writing a title and submitting an abstract, to designing the poster and finally presenting it in the poster session. Your conference poster will be one of your first research outputs, and the poster session is your first introduction to a professional community. Making a great poster develops the skills to create publications, reports, outreach and teaching materials throughout your career.

    This book also has material for conference organizers on how to make a better poster session for their attendees.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.53061/DVQK4625

    Readership

    An essential guide for students and researchers preparing and presenting conference posters.

    Table of Contents

    Foreword by Echo Rivera
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction

    1 Poster design: the short form

    Part I - For viewers
    2 Attending a poster session

    Part II - For presenters
    3 Why posters?
    4 Design thinking
    5 Early preparation
    6 Narrative thinking
    7 Visual thinking and graphic design
    8 Figures
    9 Presenting data
    10 Colors
    11 Beyond paper
    12 Text and type
    13 Layout
    14 Grids
    15 Background
    16 Title bars
    17 Blocks of text
    18 Sections
    19 Images and graphics, revisited
    20 Fine-tuning
    21 Before you print
    22 Printing
    23 Travel
    24 Networking and presentation
    25 After the conference

    Part III - For organizers
    26 Poster session planning
    27 Conference website resources
    28 During the conference

    Part IV - What next?
    29 Constant improvement

    Afterword
    References
    Index

    Reviews

    • Engaging and easy to read... Every lab should have a copy of Better Posters. The book should make conference poster sessions better for everyone – those presenting and those attending. Thank goodness someone wrote it!
      —Stephen Heard, Scientist Sees Squirrel
    • What impressed me the most about “Better Posters” is its breadth... This book should be in the library of any university with a graduate program or on the shelf of any researcher who makes research posters/oversees students who make research posters.
      —Kristin Briney, Data Ab Initio
    • ...this excellent book is useful and enjoyable to read.
      —Conservation Biology

    About the Author

    Zen Faulkes is a professor of biology. He has written the popular Better Posters blog for over eleven years.

    Bibliographic Information

    • 320 pages
    • 157 colour figures
    • BISAC SCI043000; EDU015000; DES07000
    • BIC GPS; AKC; NHM;