As part of the module objectives to enhance your ability to assess critically relevant literature, we have given you a research paper that you will need to present in a poster presentation. You will be responsible for reading a specified recent scientific paper (a different paper for each student) and presenting the study to the rest of the class as a poster. All of these papers report the results of trials (experiments) using human volunteers. The papers have been chosen to cover a range of types of study where the nature of the intervention, the subject group studied or the focus of the investigation illustrates different areas of (current) nutritional research. The intention is that you should:

• Set the scene for the study
• Summarise the most important results
• Indicate how this study has advanced knowledge
• State the most important conclusions.

In addition to describing what is in the paper, I would like you to be critical (in a constructive sense) of the paper. Points which you may wish to pay particular attention to include:

• Is the context for the study well set out?
• Have they analysed their results appropriately?
• Have they drawn conclusions that are justified by the evidence presented?

FORMAT
For the format, please prepare your poster on 5 A4 sheets, PLUS another A4 sheet for the title (See below for an example). You need to have the following subheadings:

• Results
• Discussion(Critical review of paper)
• Conclusions

ASSESSMENT

This part of the module is worth 20% of the overall mark for the module. Among the points we will be looking for are:

• Evidence of thorough preparation of presentation
• Coherence of ‘story’
• Time keeping
• Critical review of paper
• Additional reading of relevant literature