Before you design your poster...
Identify:
- Key finding, message, prediction, or conclusion
- Data that supports the significance and authenticity of that outcome
- Relevant steps to get to this data
Plot:
- How does the story begin?
- Is there a problem to introduce? A solution to aim for? A piece of data that begins a line of inquiry?
- What have you discovered? Learned? Tried? Seen?
- What do you predict? How can your project be involved in the future?
It may help to reflect and consider moments when you made discoveries, or considered new questions in your own process of research.
Design:
- What will you need to describe? Can a picture, illustration, or diagram help?
- What will you compare? Would a graph or infographic help?
- What will you demonstrate? Can a prop, a model, a handout, an animation help? Is it worth the time for the value?
Assemble your presentation elements according to the order and groupings in which they'll be presented.