Names Milligan College Advisor Name Sponsor Names Research Question Literature Review Participants Method and Measures Results Conclusions Literature Cited Further Information ID: 282813
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Title formatted in Upper and Lower CaseName(s)Milligan College Advisor: NameSponsor: Name(s)
Research Question
Literature Review
Participants
Method and Measures
Results
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
This section could be really short of called an “Introduction” or “Background” section and combined with your literature review. Its up to you but the reader should easily be able to find your hypothesis, purpose or question.
Keep this really short. Only put what you to here to convey any major works cited in your paper and how they helped form the basis for your study. A poster does not have to include a reference list. You can always say “references available upon request” if you want to ensure the reader that you can back up your claims.
Describe here what you did and how you did it with just enough detail to give people the basic idea. You can verbally tell them anything you may have left out when they come up to talk to you about your poster. Pictures can be really helpful here, especially if you used any equipment or took pictures of your process, specimen, or participants while conducting the study.
This could be combined with the methods section too. Again, pictures, graphs or tables are a nice way to break up all the text.
If you would like to thank any organizations or individuals for helping you with your project you can put it here if you have room. You can also include an image of their logo along with Milligan’s logo as another “shout out” to the organization that provided you with important resources or participants.
Do more than repeat your results here. You should describe whether your results answered your research question and how. Discuss any limitations, strengths, or applications of your findings. You went to a lot of trouble to do this research so there must be a purpose and a plan for how the information could be used. Here is the place to try to convey that succinctly to your reader.
If you have tables, figures or graphs you should include them if space allows. It is much better to have a visual representation of results than just sentences.
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