- General Resources
- General
Resources The Making of a Successful Proposal
by The Graduate Division, University of California,
Berkeley
- The
Holy Grail: In Pursuit Of The Dissertation Proposal
by Michael Watts, Institute of International Studies, UC-Berkeley
"One of the great curiosities of academia is that the art of writing
a research proposal-arguably one of the most difficult and demanding
tasks confronting any research student-is so weakly institutionalized
within graduate programs."
- A Guide to
Proposal Planning and Writing
by Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner
- Obtaining
Federal Funding, by Caroline Wardle, NSF
An [excellent and still timely] guide to the art and science of
writing competitive proposals for federal funding. While this guide
may provide valuable information for proposal writing in general,
it was prepared with research proposals in mind, not educational
proposals.
- The
Science of Scientific Writing
by George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan
"If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer
must understand what the reader needs."
- How
to Write a Losing Proposal by Alexander Scheeline (with one
item by Richard Hilderbrandt)
- Science
Careers Journal, The GrantDoctor: Advice for Grant Seekers
(a series of articles)
- Developing
And Writing Grant Proposals
from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Basic Elements
of Grant Writing - a guide prepared by the Corporation For Public
Broadcasting
- Guide for Writing
a Funding Proposal -by S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D. Provides both
instructions on how to write a funding proposal and actual examples
of a completed proposal.
- The Art of Grantsmanship
- A useful guide by Dr. Jacob Kraicer of the University of Toronto
Department of Physiology; its specifically for medical researchers,
but of interest to anyone looking for funding.
- Funding Your
Best Ideas - A 12-Step Program
- How
to Become a Grant Reviewer
By Karen M. Markin, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle
Careers
- Proposal
Writing - A Short Course from the Foundation Center
- NSF Resources
- NSF
Resources How to Compete for Funding at NSF
A Presentation by OPD & Related Resource Materials, March 2008
- Funding
and Writing Successful Proposals [to NSF], 2007
By Timothy M. Pinkston, Program Director, tpinksto@nsf.gov; Professor,
USC,tpink@usc.edu
- Observations
on Proposal Preparation & Writing Tips, Slides 38-52A Guide
for Proposal Writing, an NSF booklet prepared by staff in DUE
The staff of the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National
Science Foundation often provide informal guidance to proposers.
Staff members give workshops on proposal writing, answer questions
by phone and e-mail, and talk to potential awardees at professional
meetings and at NSF. This guide is the essence of the advice often
given to inquirers. These suggestions for improving proposals were
collected from a variety of sources, including NSF Program Directors,
panel reviewers, and successful grantees. Ultimately, proposals
are peer reviewed in panels consisting of colleagues in science,
mathematics, engineering, and technology disciplines or related
fields, and the success in obtaining funding depends in great measure
on reviewers’ judgments and their written reviews.
- NSF
DCL on Broader Impacts Proposal Requirements
"We would like to call the community’s attention to several sections
of all proposals that require the broader impacts criterion to be
specifically addressed: the Project Summary, the Project Description,
and the Results of Prior Support section.
- "What Does
NSF Mean by "Transformative Research" Under the Intellectual Merit
Review Criterion?"
The term "transformative research" is being used to describe
a range of endeavors which promise extraordinary outcomes, such
as: revolutionizing entire disciplines; creating entirely new fields;
or disrupting accepted theories and perspectives - in other words,
those endeavors which have the potential to change the way we address
challenges in science, engineering, and innovation.
-
Six Merit Review Facts from NSF
FACT 1: NSF Program Officers make recommendations to fund or decline
a proposal. DISCUSSION: External review panels do not make funding
decisions. The analysis and evaluation of proposals by external
reviewers provide information to NSF Program Officers in making
their recommendations to award or decline a proposal.
- Writing
Proposals to NSF
Proposal Preparation Presentation from April 3, 2002 NSF workshop
at College of William & Mary.
- NSF
Proposal Writing Tips
presentation by Jan Cuny, NSF CISE
- Why
You Should Volunteer to Serve as an NSF Reviewer
In addition to providing a great service to NSF and the science
and engineering community, reviewers benefit from reviewing and
serving on panels. Reviewers gain first hand knowledge of the peer
review process; learn about common problems with proposals; discover
strategies to write strong proposals; and, through serving on a
panel, meet colleagues and NSF program officers managing programs
related to your interests.
-
Finding What Works: Strategies for Improving STEM Education
- http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm
Examining the evidence for program outcomes on the agenda for participants
in the Math and Science Partnership program, January 24, 2008
- A
National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education by the
National Science Foundation
This action plan lays out a structure that will allow stakeholders
from local, State, and Federal governments, as well as nongovernmental
STEM education stakeholder groups, to work together to coordinate
and enhance the Nation’s ability to produce a numerate and scientifically
and technologically literate society and to increase and improve
the current STEM education workforce. Strategies for producing the
next generation of innovators are not explicitly addressed in this
action plan and will require subsequent study. A coherent system
of STEM education is essential to the Nation’s economy and well-being.
-
NSF CAREER FAQ’s
- NSF
Innovation Through Institutional Integration FAQ's
- NSF
CAREER Proposal Writing Tips
Edited by ZJ Pei, Kansas State University, January 2007
- NSF
CAREER, A Compilation of Proposal Writing Tips
from NSF Program Officers and Career Awardees from Institutions
Throughout the US
- Writing
an NSF CAREER Award Proposal
Notes from a May, 2000 workshop at the University of Washington
College of Engineering
by Michael Ernst (mernst@cs.washington.edu)
- The
NSF CAREER Program
Dr. Michael J. Pazzani, VP for Research & Graduate & Professional
Education, Rutgers University
- [NSF
SBE] Guidelines for Writing Grant Proposals
By Ann M. Peters, University of Hawaii & Lise Menn, University
of Colorado
Written to help linguists, especially younger scholars, produce
higher quality (and therefore more fundable) proposals for grants
from NSF, this essay is an excellent overall introduction to writing
proposals to NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and
Economics Sciences.
- NSF
Proposal Review By Mark Oskin, A view from the other side
- A Guide
for Proposal Writing from the National Science Foundation
- NIH Resources
- This
is Not Your Mentor’s NIH! How to get Funded and Stay Funded
Scott Rivkees, M.D., Director, Yale Child Health Research Center
Associate Chair of Pediatrics for Research
- Insider’s
Guide to Peer Review For Applicants (Center for Scientific Review)
To help new and established applicants submit better applications,
Center for Scientific Review asked six current and retired study
section chairs to share their personal insights on what makes a
good NIH grant application. They responded with great enthusiasm.
We present some of their responses in their own words to preserve
their sprit and impact. NIH Center for Scientific Review, January
18, 2008
- NIH Grant
Application Basics
- NIH
Grants Process Overview
- NIH
All About Grants Tutorials
- NIH
Grant Writing Tips Sheets
- NIH
Peer Review of Grants
- Guideline
Reviewers and Chairs
- Proposal Writing:
The Business of Science, by Wendy Sanders, Whitaker Foundation
The essence of a successful NIH grant application is the idea underlying
it. How can we evaluate whether our idea is a good idea, the definition
of a good idea being one with the potential to be funded?
- NCI
Quick Guide for [Writing] Grant Applications
- Narrated
Advice Presentations for NIH SBIR and STTR Proposals
These narrated tutorials are an excellent source of information
on developing SBIR and STTR proposals. They offer general advice
and information on applying, as well as a visual step-by-step overview
of the process from the knowledge and experience of NIAID staff,
including former NIH grantees.
- NIH
Grant Writing Tip Sheet (from NINDS)
- A
Short Guide to the Preparation of NIH Grant Applications - a
guide prepared by the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer
Institute (NCI)
- Frequently
Heard Comments at Study Section Meetings (NIH) (pdf)
- Department of Energy Resources
- Department of Education Resources
- National Endowment of the Humanities Resources
- Environmental Protection Agency Resources
- SBIR/STTR
- SBIR
Proposal Writing Basics
The North Carolina Small Business Technology and Development Center's
SBIR/STTR NEWS recently reprinted this article, by Gail & Jim
Greenwood, Greenwood Consulting Group, Inc., Copyright © 2008-posted
by the Research
Group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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