Use comments on your proposal to revise for your poster -- especially if you failed to include 2 closely related prior studies, failed to include a hypothesis paragraph, or were unclear in your methods section. This need to be fixed for your final presentation of your study.
Introduction
What is your topic/main question?
Background
Briefly mention prior work
(cite 2 closely related studies)
Current study
What is your specific objective
with your experiment?
Briefly state what the task/manipulation
will be
State predicted result based
on your hypothesis
Method
Who were subjects/how many?
What did subject do?
What did you manipulate?
What did you measure?
SHOW EXAMPLES OF TASK
SHOW FLOW CHART OF PROCEDURE (optional if simple)
Results
(point to graph, with statistics at bottom)
What did you find in plain English? ("women remembered
more names than men")
Discussion
Remind reader
of purpose of experiment/hypothesis
Summarize data
State whether
hypothesis supported
Interpret findings:
(Important -- must do all 4)
Discuss any
peculiarities, unexpected findings, weaknesses or potential reasons for
failures
Relate findings
to other work
Summarize importance
Make suggestions
for future work
The above points are EXACTLY what you will be graded on for both your poster and oral presentation. If you turn these items into 20 sentences, you will have an excellent spoken presentation of about 3 minutes in length.