Better Posters: Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster

✍ Scribed by Zen Faulkes

• Publisher: Pelagic Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Are you confused by the feedback you get from your academic teachers and mentors?

This clear and accessible guide to decoding academic feedback will help you interpret what your lecturer or research supervisor is really trying to tell you about your writing—and show you how to fix it. It will help you master a range of techniques and strategies to take your writing to the next level and along the way you’ll learn why academic text looks the way it does, and how to produce that ‘authoritative scholarly voice’ that everyone talks about.

This book is an easy-to-use resource for postgraduate students and researchers in all disciplines, and even professional academics, to diagnose their writing issues and find ways to fix them. This book would also be a valuable text for academic writing courses and writing groups, such as those offered in doctoral and Master's by research degree programmes.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Poster design: the short form
PART I: For viewers
CHAPTER 2: Attending a poster session
PART II: For presenters
CHAPTER 3: Why posters?
CHAPTER 4: Design thinking
CHAPTER 5: Early preparation
CHAPTER 6: Narrative thinking
CHAPTER 7: Visual thinking and graphic design
CHAPTER 8: Figures
CHAPTER 9: Presenting data
CHAPTER 10: Colors
CHAPTER 11: Beyond paper
CHAPTER 12: Text and type
CHAPTER 13: Layout
CHAPTER 14: Grids
CHAPTER 15: Background
CHAPTER 16: Title bars
CHAPTER 17: Blocks of text
CHAPTER 18: Sections
CHAPTER 19: Images and graphics, revisited
CHAPTER 20: Fine-tuning
CHAPTER 21: Before you print
CHAPTER 22: Printing
CHAPTER 23: Travel
CHAPTER 24: Networking and presentation
CHAPTER 25: After the conference
PART III: For organizers
CHAPTER 26: Poster session planning
CHAPTER 27: Conference website resources
CHAPTER 28: During the conference
PART IV: What next?
CHAPTER 29: Constant improvement
Afterword
References
Index
Back Cover

✦ Subjects

Data Visualization; Best Practices; Design; Communication; Presentations; Research; Posters