How 2 do Poster

Poster

Poster projects mix research and artistic elements, allowing you to flex both the analytical and creative parts of your brain.

Task 1: Requirements

Make sure you understand what your teacher expects of you. Review all of the information you have about the assignment and verify that you can answer the following questions. If you don’t know, ask your teacher.

When is your poster due?

Are you required to do your poster on a particular topic?

Did your teacher provide any guidelines regarding how you conduct your research or how your final poster should look?

Task 2: Topic and objective

Your goal is to pick a topic that is specific enough to cover in a poster, but not so limited that you won’t be able to find research sources.

1. Choose a broad topic that interests you and falls within your assignment guidelines. If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas, think about recent experiences you’ve had. Pick up a magazine or skim a newspaper for stories about people, events, or issues that intrigue you. Example: For biology class, you are required to create a poster on an organism found in ecosystem behind your school. You decide to create an FBI-style “wanted poster” on Scotch broom, the invasive species that threatens to take over the whole ecosystem.

2. Define your objective—that is, what you intend to accomplish with your poster. Example: Your poster on an organism found in the ecosystem behind your school is supposed to educate viewers about the unique characteristics of the organism. Your objective for your poster, then, is to convey the unique characteristics of Scotch broom—what it looks like, its biological classification, what makes it invasive—in an interesting and visually appealing way.

Task 3: Research

1. Do some digging to get a feel for your topic. Skim an encyclopedia article or read a few newspaper articles related to your topic. This will introduce you to the major areas of interest in your subject.

2. Move beyond your preliminary investigation to find more specific reference sources. Track down library books, periodicals, and Web sites, then read, read, read.

3. As you read, note any information you encounter that supports your objective. Each time you take a note, cite the reference—that is, jot down exactly where you found the information, including the title of the source, its author and publisher, publication date and place, and a page number. You’ll need this information if you’re required to compose a bibliography. Tip: If your teacher requires you to hand in a bibliography with your persuasive essay, take a few minutes now to determine what information on each source you need. Jot this information down as you do your research. For example, does your teacher require you to list your source’s publisher and where it was published? Knowing exactly what you need now will save you the hassle of going back to look it up later.

Task 4: Design mockup

1. Organize your ideas. Put your objective at the top of a piece of paper, then, working from your research notes, list the key concepts you must convey in your poster to achieve your objective. Example: Your objective is to convey the unique characteristics of Scotch broom in an interesting and visually appealing poster. From your research, you know the unique characteristics of Scotch broom are:

Its physical appearance and biological classification

Its geographical range

Its life cycle, including what its seeds look like and how they germinate

What makes it invasive and how it damages the ecosystems to which it has spread

2. Create a design mockup. Make a rough sketch of your poster and plan how you’ll convey your key concepts visually. Example: To create a mockup of your poster, you cut a piece of newsprint to match the dimensions of your poster. You divide the newsprint into visual regions, center, top, bottom, left, and right. You decide to use the center region for the title of your poster: “Wanted, dead or alive: Scotch broom,” then use each remaining visual region to convey one of your key concepts.

Task 5: Bibliography

Some poster projects require a bibliography—a list of the sources you used in your research. A poster project bibliography is usually a separate page or pages titled “Bibliography,” “References,” or “Works Cited.”

1. Gather all the source information you jotted down when you were taking notes.

2. Assemble your sources into a single list, alphabetized by author’s last name. Sources that don’t have authors (encyclopedia articles, for example) should be alphabetized by title.

3. Properly format each item in your source list according to an accepted bibliographic style. One common bibliographic style is provided below, but there are many acceptable styles for bibliographies. Be sure to use the format that your teacher specified. Common Bibliographic Style

This bibliographic style follows the MLA Handbooks for Writers of Research Papers, 5th edition, written by Joseph Gibaldi and published in 1999 in New York by the Modern Language Association of America.

Book

Author Last Name, Author First Name. Book Title. Publication Location: Publisher, Publication Year.

Encyclopedia article

“Article Title,” Encyclopedia Name. Edition Year ed.

Newspaper, magazine, or journal article

Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Article Title” Publication Title Publication Date: page numbers.

Book review

Reviewer Last Name, Reviewer First Name. Rev. of Book Title by Book Author First and Last Name. Publication Location: Publisher, Publication Year.

Film, movie

Movie Title. Dir. Director First and Last Name. Studio or Distributor, Movie Release Date.

Internet source

Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Article or Page Title.” Site Name. Institution or organization affiliated with the site. <URL>.

Task 6: Final poster

1. Make a list of the materials you’ll need for your poster (pictures from magazines, construction paper, pens, glue, lettering stencils, etc.) and gather them in your workspace.

2. Using your mockup as a guide, create your poster. Refer back to your objective often to keep yourself on track. This is your chance to let your creative side take over. You might want to draw on the following rules of thumb about visual presentation, but don’t let convention limit your creativity.

Keep it simple. Support a key concept with two or three important facts, rather than many small details.

Use contrasting colors to make your poster more readable. If you’re using light-colored paper, choose a dark color for your graphics and text.

Draw attention to important information by drawing a border around it or using a different background color.

Give your poster a professional, polished look by trimming jagged edges, securing loose pieces with glue or double-sided tape, wiping away excess glue, and erasing any pencil guidelines.

Don’t forget to check your spelling.

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Give your poster a final once-over. When you’re sure it represents your best effort, hand it in!

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