{"id":10152,"date":"2023-03-24T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:45:36","slug":"share-your-work-with-a-research-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/share-your-work-with-a-research-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Share your work with a research poster!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Engineering Research Open House<\/a> is coming up! For those of you who are presenting, here are a few tips to ensure your poster makes a good impression:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Think about your audience: <\/strong>Think about who is present at the event you are at and who you want to come talk to you. While a picture of your cute cat might get people to look at your poster but unless your cat was a central part of your research that’s not what you want to talk to people about.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Less Is More: <\/strong>Think of your poster as a business card for your research, not a full article. Find a balance between visual interest and big points to pull people in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Find a balance between negative and positive space: <\/strong>Design your poster to look full but not cluttered. This is a difficult and important balance to hit. Too much negative space and your poster will look incomplete but if your poster is too full it will look busy and cluttered. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Templates are your friend: <\/strong>Using a template is a great way to make poster making much easier. Templates for the University of Iowa can be found here<\/a>, but if you’re presenting at a conference make sure to check their poster rules to make sure your poster is the correct size.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    Want more information on making an effective poster? Come to our upcoming workshop: Creating a Research Poster on Thursday, March 30 at 3:30 in the Engineering Creative Space. The workshop is FREE but you need to visit this page<\/a> to register. This workshop will help you make your poster presentation more effective. Learn to think about the prospective audience, poster content, and design considerations in a poster layout. Presented by Dr. Michelle Scherer. University of Iowa Distinguished Chair and professor of civil and environmental engineering, & Director of the Hanson Center for Communication (HCC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cResearch Guides: How to Create a Research Poster: Poster Basics,\u201d n.d. https:\/\/guides.nyu.edu\/posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cResearch Poster Content & Context – Purdue OWL\u00ae –  Purdue University,\u201d n.d. https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/general_writing\/common_writing_assignments\/research_posters\/research_poster_content-context.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stuckey, Matthew, and Tammy Hoyer. \u201cHow to Make an Effective Poster.\u201d University of California Davis, n.d. https:\/\/urc.ucdavis.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/dgvnsk3561\/files\/local_resources\/documents\/pdf_documents\/How_To_Make_an_Effective_Poster2.pdf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Engineering Research Open House is coming up! For those of you who are presenting, here are a few tips to ensure your poster makes a good impression: Want more information on making an effective poster? Come to our upcoming workshop: Creating a Research Poster on Thursday, March 30 at 3:30 in the Engineering CreativeContinue reading “Share your work with a research poster!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":10156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}