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