Harriet L. Wilkes
Honors College Symposium
for Research and Creative Projects

Friday, April 15, 2005

 

Poster Guidelines and Submission Instructions

Deadline:  Thursday, April 7th, 2005

 

Use the poster template here to create your poster.   As you prepare your poster, please keep in mind that your audience may have no prior knowledge of your topic.  Please follow the guidelines presented below.

1. Your banner should contain a title for your project, the authors, the class, and the college.  Use the font and color choices provided on the template. Color Honors College and FAU logos will be added to your poster, but have been left out of the template to keep the file sizes manageable for mailing.

2. The font for text within the poster should be no smaller than 32 point.

3. The background of your poster needs to be white.  A darker background will bleed.

4. You are encouraged to use graphs, photographs, and other visual aides to help the viewer understand your project.

5. The poster should be 48 inches wide by 36 inches high.

6. Include the date and the title of the conference at the bottom of your poster.
   

Please proofread your poster with care.  Due to the high cost of printing, only one copy of each poster will be printed.  If you make an error on your poster, you will be charged $25 to print a second copy.

Save your poster with a filename is that of the presenting author, in the format “last-name_first-name.ppt”. For example, Albert Einstein’s poster would be saved as Einstein_Albert.ppt.  Email your completed poster to Dr. Fitchett, sfitchet@fau.edu, by Thursday, April 7th, using “poster submission” as the subject line.  If you prefer, you may leave a disk with your poster file in the box outside Dr. Fitchett's office (MHC 164).

 

Tips for Poster Preparation

Posters should stimulate discussion, not give a long presentation.  Therefore, keep text to a minimum, emphasize graphics, and make sure every item in your poster is necessary.

For scientific posters, be sure to clearly state the question your study addresses, your hypotheses, and your conclusions.  Give a brief description of your methods.

Use handouts to supplement your poster, if appropriate.

Place related materials (for instance, a photo with accompanying text) close together, then highlight themes by framing collections of material with blank space.

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