Before you consider the formatting and construction issues associated with an academic 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 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