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Presenting Your Research: Research Posters and Presenting to Different Audiences

Learn how to effectively communicate your research, either on a poster at a conference or verbally in a different setting. Topics include basic design principles, best poster practices, general design tool options and more.

Intro

This guide was initially made to accompany a June 2024 workshop for Summer MAPs. The materials below were used for the workshop. 

Slides

Other materials

We used the following article as practice for finding the essential information to include in a poster. Any article will work, but this one was short (about 4 pages) and included some charts and graphs, so it was easier to work with. 

Li-Yin, Liu, Christopher J. Devine, and Heidi Gauder. 2020. “The Gender Citation Gap in Undergraduate Student Research: Evidence from the Political Science Classroom.” PS, Political Science & Politics 53 (4): 729–33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520000426.