Scholarly Lit and Digital Poster Faculty Guide at Clermont

Before you consider the formatting and construction issues associated with a scientific poster, it is important to hone your content in Word, Google Docs, or another familiar word processing format.  Composing your poster as a poster will take longer -- so commit your words to the page in a more familiar format first.

When composing scientific poster content, keep the following sections of information in mind, as they'll be clearly separated on the poster as first-level headings.  Check with your professor about their expectations about these major headings, too:

• Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s)
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusion
• References

PowerPoint is the easiest way to create a UC-branded poster with minimal formatting work.  You can use PowerPoint on a PC or a Mac, but switching between those two versions midway can result in the loss of some formatting fidelity.

• Begin by choosing a UC-branded PowerPoint template (scroll to bottom for PowerPoint template).
• Change the slide size to 56 inches (width) by 44.8 inches (height).  When you print your poster, export/save as PDF and this will be the paper size.  Traditional PowerPoint slide size defaults are 13 x 7.5 inches (widescreen) or 10 x 7.5 inches (standard). It is important to do this immediately, before adding any content.
• Save your work in safe place that allows collaboration and back-up, such as OneDrive or another cloud storage solution.