ABSTRACT
Many posters will make use of graphs. The details of how these are constructed will depend on data and the conventions of researchers own research discipline. Use line graphs where the independent variable is a measurement. Simple line graphs and scatter plots can be generated within PowerPoint or Excel. Take care when they enter the data into the spreadsheets – a mistyped entry could alter their interpretation of the data. It is surprising how often graphs, even in published papers, do not have the axes labelled clearly to indicate the variables that have been plotted. Graphs created in PowerPoint and Excel sometimes appear with the numbers in between the tick marks on the axis, instead of aligned with the tick marks. It is important to make graphs and their associated captions self-contained so that readers do not have to search the rest of the poster to discover what abbreviations mean.
