SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

HOW TO MAKE AN EFFECTIF POSTER

THE COMPUTER AND INTERNET BASICS COURSE
Prepared to fulfill the assignments of the Computer and Internet Basics
Course
Supporting Lecturer:
Mr. Adi Nugraha, M.Pd.

Aiman

22235603

EKONOMI SYARIAH
UNIVERSITY AL-ITTIHAD
CIANJUR
2023/2024

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 FOREWORD

We offer thanks to the presence of Allah SWT because thanks to His

abundant grace and guidance alone, we were able to complete the paper with
the title: How To Make An Effectif Poster.
May peace and blessings continue to be poured out upon the Prophet
Muhammad SAW,his family, friends and followers until the last day.

Based on guidance and suggestions from friends, this paper was prepared,
hopefully this paper can be useful for all of us in fulfilling the assignments of
the Arabic language course and hopefully everything contained in this paper
can be useful for the writer and readers in order to develop scientific treasures.
This paper is presented specifically with the aim of providing direction and
guidance so that those who read it can create more meaningful things.
The research thanks are also
conveyed to:
1. Course supervisor Basics Of Computers And The Internet Mr. Adi
Nugraha, M.Pd.
2. All parties who have helped in the
formation of the Paper.
We realize that in the preparation of this paper there are still many
shortcomings and it is not perfect. For this reason, we hope that readers will
receive constructive criticism and suggestions to improve the next steps.
Ultimately, we return everything to Allah SWT because perfection
belongs to Allah SWT

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 LIST OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE
FOREWORD...........................................................................................................i
LIST OF CONTENTS...........................................................................................ii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION...........................................................................1
1.1 Background...............................................................................................1
1.2 Formulation of the problem..........................................................................1
1.3 Objective.....................................................................................................1
CHAPTER II DISCUSSION.................................................................................2
2.1 Purpose of an academic poster...................................................................2
2.2 What is an academic poster ?....................................................................2
2.3 Why are academic posters important........................................................2
2.4 Vital, work with your sponsor..................................................................3
2.5 Preparing your poster keep in mind :...........................................................3
2.6 Main Elements of a Poster..........................................................................3
2.7 Poster Appearance.......................................................................................4
2.8 Poster appearance........................................................................................5
CHAPTER III CLOSING....................................................................................6
CONCLUSIONS/DISCUSSION..........................................................................6
REFERENCES AND SITES TO VISIT...............................................................6

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background
The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will
remember it. And more importantly, they will remember you.(Paul Arden)
Purpose of an poster to display information in a clear, concise manner,
while generating interest to engage in a discussion. a big piece of paper (or wall-
mounted monitor) that can communicate your research at a conference, and is
composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview
of your novel approach, your amazing results in graphical form, some insightful
discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that
are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous
assistance and financial support conned from others" (Purrington 2014)

1.2 Formulation of the problem

1. What is the purpose of an academic poster ?

2. What is an academic poster ?
3. Why are academic posters important ?
4. Vital, work with your sponsor
5. Preparing your poster keep in mind :
6. Main Elements of a Poster
7. Poster Appearance
8. poster appearance

1.3 Objective
To find out what will be discussed regarding the poster.

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 CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

2.1 Purpose of an academic poster

Purpose of an poster to display information in a clear, concise manner,
while generating interest to engage in a discussion. a big piece of paper (or wall-
mounted monitor) that can communicate your research at a conference, and is
composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an
overview of your novel approach, your amazing results in graphical form, some
insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published
articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of
the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others" (Purrington
2014)

2.2 What is an academic poster ?

a. A form of Academic Expression
b. Summary of Research (5 – 10 minutes)
c. Visually augmented discussion/interaction
d. At conferences viewers come to you (or you can invite)
e. People search published abstracts
f. Posters may be grouped by field & folks may wander
g. New Information
h. Characteristic Fields
i. Appearance/Content varies by Field or Lab

2.3 Why are academic posters important

Represents you and you

sponsor’s research at:
 Conferences
 Symposia
 Hallways
 Impormational days
 Demonstrate expertise
 Demonstrate Attentions of detail

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  Practice public speaking
 Learn about most current result and field
 Deepens understanding of topic
 Oppertunity of teaching and learning
 Share ideas
 Create collaboration

2.4 Vital, work with your sponsor

 Represents their laboratory
 They again need to be involved
 New data available
 Will want to make revision (several time)
 Need final approval

2.5 Preparing your poster keep in mind :

• Characteristic sections with expected information

• Consult rules of conference/rubrics

• Work in collaboration w/ research sponsor

• Decide on experiments that will be presented

• Create a storyboard/plan

• Visually appealing

• Primarily image driven but stand alone

• Simply and tightly written

• Know what to say for each figure

• Transitions between sections

• Practice for your audience

• KNOW all details of project

2.6 Main Elements of a Poster

• Title (same as submitted abstract)

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 • Name and Campus

• Core Technical Content

• Abstract

• Introduction

• Results

• Discussion

• Literature cites/Resources

• Acknowledgements

• Visuals

• Font should be legible fonts like:

• Times New Roman

• Arial

• Garamond

• Berkeley UC Davis Medium

• Do not use illegible fonts like:

• Brush Script

• Use the same font type throughout your poster

• No smaller than 16 pt. Font

2.7 Poster Appearance

• make rough plan of your poster

• will have “standard” headings

• poster provides visual aids as you talk

• picture worth 1k words

• carry informasi with colorful imagges and figures

• estimate space that will be needed

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 • how many figures needed?

• how much text explain

• space for text

• poster must be “stand alone”

• has to have words

• word amount veries with field

• balance your text and images

2.8 Poster appearance

 36”x48” good for 3 column (Proposal or one experiment).
 Intro - Can have image of existing model, or eye catching photo
 Methods - can be a flow chart
 Results – Figures, Line Graphs common.

 Discussion – Often bulleted

 Should be Visually Appealing
 Understand reader “gravity”
 Top left to bottom
 Left to right
 Have an obvious flow
 Headings
 Numbers
 Use “white space” or color
 Unobtrusive/Neutral backgrounds
 White
 Lt grey-beige

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 CHAPTER III
CLOSING

CONCLUSIONS/DISCUSSION

The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will
remember it. And more importantly, they will remember you.(Paul Arden)
Purpose of an poster to display information in a clear, concise manner, while
generating interest to engage in a discussion. a big piece of paper (or wall-
mounted monitor) that can communicate your research at a conference, and is
composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an
overview of your novel approach, your amazing results in graphical form,
some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously
published articles that are important to your research, and some brief
acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned
from others" (Purrington 2014)

REFERENCES AND SITES TO VISIT

• How to Write an Abstract:

http://vimeo.com/3968357.

• How to Present: http://www.vimeo.com/3968357.

• Click here for PosterTalk helpful presentation, which was used to create parts
of this presentation. Thank you Dr. Gail P. Taylor!
• Or visit:
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• Colin Purrington: Advice for designing scientific
posters. http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
• Knowledge Management in Health Services; HSERV 590A: Creating a
Poster Using MS PowerPoint – University of Washington
http://courses.washington.edu/~hs590a/weblinks/poster.html
Creating Effective
Poster Presentations – Hess and Liegel.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~grhess/posters/
• University of Buffalo- Designing effective poster
presentations http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/unit s/s el/bio/posters .html
• University of Kansas- Jeff
Radel
http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Poster_Presentations/PstrStart.htm.