Grant Application And Other Forms

What knowledge or information will be gained as a direct result of your project? Why is undertaking your research important in a broader sense?

And once again, you’re trying to establish some basic terminology that people can link to your aims. The peach aim is about adequate intensity, the blue/purple is about the extent of benefit, and the gray is about the best combination. We want to see specific goals that are going to be addressed by the particular studies. This is where we’re getting into a little more detailed view of what the application is about. That’s why you really want to start early on these sections, send them around, and have other people give you feedback. So you know you’re on the right track with your ideas and the way that you’re pitching those ideas to your audience.

Revising Your Proposal

Grant Training Center Member Community provides a facility that enables users to send email messages / private messages to others. Users must not use this facility to send unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate messages, whether or not for commercial purposes. Only messages for the purpose of grant collaboration are allowed. Grants.gov Forms Repository — All standard grant application forms are also available on the Grants.gov site. Click on the links below to access representative grant abstracts for our Research Program in PDF Format. The blue section goes into the long-term goal and the specific objectives of this proposal, which is basically to figure out how to use this treatment with this population. It’s one page, and you can see there are some formatting and some indents and some white space to make it a little more pleasing to the eye.

High rates of articles and prepositions, for example, indicate complex thinking, while high rates of storytelling words such as pronouns indicate simpler thinking. This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may cancel your Subscription at any time, for any reason.

Prdv009: Writing Grant Proposals

Keep in mind that reviewers may not read every word of your proposal. Your reviewer may only read the abstract, the sections on research design and methodology, the vitae, and the budget.

You want them to think, “Oh, I want to read the rest of this, this looks really good.” Rather than, “Oh my God, how am I going to get through the next six pages? ” Remember the reviewer starts out being your friend and wants to support you, but that support only goes so far. You have to earn it the rest of the way, to the end of the application. Be sure that you earn it on those first couple pages. One other group that’s not listed on the slide, but we’ll be talking about on the last day, is Council, which is the group that actually makes the funding decisions.

The Worth Of Words

In a paper published on Jan. 30, I evaluated the financial value of words based on a sample of funded National Science Foundation grant abstracts. The data indicated that what researchers say and how we say it can foretell the amount of funding we are awarded. They also show that the writing funders idealize may not always match up with what they actually prefer. With respect to style, I suggest that you aim for an average of 16 words per sentence. Each of your sentences should be short enough to be read aloud without pausing for breath.

Instead, the results demonstrate that real-world language data have rich psychological value. Just counting words can provide new insights into institutional processes such as grant funding allocation.

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Specific Aims: The Basics

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Be sure to clarify your project’s theoretical orientation. Remember that most readers are lazy and will not respond well to a poorly organized, poorly written, or confusing proposal. Follow all the guidelines for the particular grant you are applying for.

The statement of problem should provide a background and rationale for the project and establish the need and relevance of the research. How is your project different from previous research on the same topic? Will you be using new methodologies or covering new theoretical territory? The research goals or objectives should identify the anticipated outcomes of the research and should match up to the needs identified in the statement of problem. List only the principle goal or objective of your research and save sub-objectives for the project narrative.

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Grant Abstract: China Childhood Obesity Survey

Barrett warns against writing abstracts with the assumption that your hypotheses are true–a costly error that “has doomed many applications,” she says. Ask others to review these two sections extracted from your grant. This will give you a sense of how reviewers might react to it. If your internal reviewers are not excited about these sections, you need to keep working. The goals of the Abstract are pretty similar to the Specific Aims. You want to invite and encourage the reviewer to read the grant. You want to excite the reviewer about the research and inspire confidence in the PI.

Strong grant proposals take a long time to develop. Start the process early and leave time to get feedback from several readers on different drafts. Seek out a variety of readers, both specialists in your research area and non-specialist colleagues. You may also want to request assistance from knowledgeable readers on specific areas of your proposal. For example, you may want to schedule a meeting with a statistician to help revise your methodology section.

While the abstract appears at the beginning of the grant, generally it is the last document prepared. On many grants, the abstract is the most critical portion. Frequently, this is the first and only section that the grants officer reviews .

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NIH advises that you remember the abstract will be used for purposes other than the review, such as to provide a brief description of the grant in annual reports, presentations and dissemination to the public. If your grant application asks for different information than above, consider those components during the read-through instead. Some federal grants require an Abstract while others require a cover page that details most of the information presented in the typical abstract. When federal agencies do require abstracts, generally they are very specific about length, spacing, and font type. We consulted these works while writing this handout.

You will need to explicitly communicate this purpose to the committee reviewing your application. This is easier when you know what you plan to achieve before you begin the writing process.