Summary
Posters, presentations, and publications are the three main ways to circulate your research for feedback and dispersion. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Posters require you to be concise and graphical, but they allow extensive interaction with the audience. Fortunately, powerful software designed for presentations facilitates good graphic design even for novices. Presentations, on the other hand, can be somewhat longer and less graphic than posters, but they also come at the cost of more limited audience feedback. Finally, publication is the usual end-state of a piece of research; its strengths are its permanence and circulation, but its costs for undergraduates often include significant time for revisions, delays in publication, and weak feedback from reviewers. Options for continued study and involvement in political science research include master’s degrees, which are typically more applied and policy oriented, and PhD (doctoral) programs, which are research oriented.
Articles
Web Extra: Printing Oversized PowerPoint Slides Using Tiling
Web Extra: Constructing Figures
Web Extra: Undergraduate Journals in Political Science
BONUS: ERW themed poster templates: 24×36 36×24
Vocab Flashcards
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[q] pre-prepared presentation components addressing issues you expect to be asked about
[a] reserve slides
[q] panel participant assigned to provide comments to each paper and about the panel as a whole
[a] discussant
[q] figure showing all coefficients of interest and their standard errors on a single graph
[a] coefficient plot
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Review Quiz
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[q] A typical professional conference panel has one or more individuals assigned as ______ who read and provide comments on the papers on the panel.
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[q] Journal submissions typically adhere to a norm of ________, where papers may be ______.
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[q random_mc=”false”] Which of the following are key norms of presenting on a panel?
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[q]You can print an oversized slide in PowerPoint using ____.
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[q] A(n) ____ displays the output of a regression, including both absolute value and uncertainty around the statistic of interest.
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