Posters and slides

Introduction

Ideally, of course, the scientific community would encounter your writings, read them attentively, and thereby understand your contribution to a degree that allows them to apply it and build upon it. In practice, two common ways of making this happen are giving presentations supported by slide shows and presenting posters (in conferences or other similar events, whether in-person or online).

Learning outcomes

This module will help you do the following:

• Accommodate content from a scientific manuscript into a slide show
• Accommodate content from a scientific manuscript into a poster
• Rephrase textual content to match a medium
• Identify and create additional or alternative representations to match a medium

Readings

• Nic Fleming: How to give a great scientific talk, Nature Career Guide, 19 December 2018.

Tools

You can use the same LaTeX tool you used in Module 8 to make things easier.

Resources

• Poster style
• Poster template
• Slide template
• Create three logos, for example with AI; name the files as in poster.tex

Assessment: presenting

Submission deadline: by Session 13.

Submitted material: in a single PDF (created by merging two documents into one if necessary) containing the poster and the slides (for hands-on) or the discussion of the guidelines (conceptual).

Basic stage (up to 5 pts)

Hands-on branch: create a poster in LaTeX for your project.

Rubric:

• Poster: layout (use of space, mixture of text and visualization), structure (elements, ordering, level of detail), and substance (clarity and impact of the message — each of those three elements is graded on a scale of 0 (weak) and 1 (appropriate).
• Self assessment — assess the strengths and the weaknesses of your work (1 pt if substantial)
• Peer assessment — assess the strengthgs and the weaknesses of another participant's work (1 pt if actionable)

Conceptual branch: look up and curate guidelines on what good scientific posters are like (up to 2 pts for adequately curated guidelines), then find at least three posters online that are related to your own research topic and carry out constructive critique on (in writing) them based on the guidelines (1 pt per adequate critique).

In-depth stage (up to 5 pts)

Hands-on branch: create a slide show in LaTeX for your project. (Rubric as above, but for slide shows in instead of posters).

Conceptual branch: as above, but for scientific slide shows instead of posters; rubric also as above.