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Posters
Style: attract attention, avoid distraction!
Content: sharp and compact!
What is a poster?
use
- studies in Workshops and Conferences
- project presentations in scientific retreats
- student research in summer schools
poster presentation
- core points of a research project with visualizations on a large paper format
- accompanied by a lightning talk on the core issues
challenges
- good selection of the urgent (=maximally relevant) contents
- transparent structure so that the audience easily finds the relevant issues
- use of visuals (tables, mental maps, graphs, etc.) that facilitate comprehension
How to create a poster?
Form
Size: DIN-A0 paper
Tool: usually with Power Point or Tikz/Beamer in LaTeX
Arrangements: horizontal or vertical
Ideas about style and format and various templates:
- templates and tutorials in posterpresentation.com
- poster examples and templates in Overleaf for LaTeX users
- template with logo (corporate design), U Göttingen
Contents
Introduction
background knowledge in a paradigm of research and motivation for a scientific contribution: a good introduction explains the relevance of the research question for a scientific paradigm.
Method
data, e.g., grammars, examples, experiments; decisions to data classifications and empirical design. The methodological decisions follow from the research question.
Results
qualitative and/or quantitative report. Use illustrations (tables, graphs) to facilitate reading.
Discussion/Analysis
Integrate the findings to the available knowledge; present analytical models for understanding the data.
Conclusions
core points in a concise way
Styles
Language data
For the presentation of language data, please follow the Leipzig Glossing Rules.
References
For the citation of bibliographical sources, you may follow the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics, or other professional guidelines for linguistic publications. The space is limited: you may abbreviate first names of authors, journal titles, omit subtitles, place of publication, or titles of collective volumes.
Further advice
guidelines of the Linguistic Society of America: LSA Annual Meeting Poster FAQs
Colin Purrington's blog on Designing conference posters.
Posters in teaching: poster session on Field Methods, Language Documentation, and Cognitive Linguistics (University of Michigan).
Use the footer to localize your research in a certain project or institution, acknowledgments, information about funding, etc.
materials
- Kindly not use copyright-protected material in your poster without permission. In case you integrate pictures produced by a third party in your presentation, you may use pictures that are available in the web under a Creative Commons license, always respecting the terms of the license (especially with respect to attribution to the creators).
repositories with free material
There are various ways to find free material (under the conditions of the respective license, e.g., to look in a repository such as unsplash.find in google
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