An effective poster is a visual communications tool.

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An effective poster will help you ... ... engage colleagues in conversation. ... get your main point(s) across to as many people as possible.

An effective poster is ... Focused Focused on a single message. Graphic Lets graphs and images tell the story; uses text sparingly. Ordered Keeps the sequence well-ordered and obvious. In a hurry? Try the Quick Reference from our Resources page. Or visit the Video Library.

An effective poster operates on multiple levels ... source of information conversation starter advertisement of your work summary of your work An effective poster is not just a standard research paper stuck to a board. A poster uses a different, visual grammar. It shows, not tells. >>More>> Are your posters effective, attracting large and enthusiastic audiences? Or, are your posters examined only by your most avid competitors or admirers? >>More>>

Many ineffective posters suffer from easy-to-fix problems, including ... objective(s) and main point(s) hard to find text too small poor graphics poor organization >>Here's how this site can help you>> You are welcome to link to this site. If you do so, we recommend linking to https://go.ncsu.edu/posters so that you will always be redirected to the appropriate place - the site is moved around from time to time.