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Scientist's Guide to Poster Presentations

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This is an excellant book. Contains lots of useful information about the do's and don'ts of making a good scientific poster. A great deal of information about basic layout that is clearly presented. Just what the beginner needs. Even the most experienced graphic designer would find this material useful. Towards the back of the book is a chapter on "Common Poster Design Blunders". This chapter contains many critique's of both badly designed posters and well designed posters. It is always good to see real eaxmples.

Gosling's book is thorough, but not complete. He does a good job of presenting and discussing the basics of scientific poster presentations: from definitions to composition. However, the book would be considerably better if there were a chapter dedicated to software and computer generated methods of creating poster presentations. The ommission of this leaves the book a decade behind. Still, for the areas that he covers, it is a useful guide and I recommended it for both scientists and students.