grant application writer’s handbook

[...].. .GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK Other useful NIH sites NIH extramural program Submitting Your Application Instructions Information about NIH Grant Application Review The NIH Grants Policy Statement NIH Grants Policy Statement Introduction Supersession Information You Will Need to Complete an NIH Grant Application Guide for Assigned Reviewers’ Preliminary Comments on Research Grant Applications... periodically updated xv xvi GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK The basic principles in this book are useful for writing many types of grant applications/proposals to both government agencies and private foundations, as well as research papers, business plans, and other similar documents However, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) investigator-initiated research grant application (R01) is used as... Tech-Write Consultants/Erimon Associates (TWC/EA), a consulting firm to help people write better grant applications, research papers, etc and also give workshops about how to write a good grant application In 1995, Dr Reif-Lehrer wrote a new book on the subject of proposal writing: Grant Application Writer’s Handbook (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1995; 472 pages) Shortly thereafter, Jones and Bartlett... CORRECT USAGE Although grant- seekers often make statements such as “my grant is due,” or “I have to write a grant, ” they are actually referring to the Application The grant is the award they get if their Application is successful Also, be aware that the NIH and some other agencies have very specific definitions of words such as “agency,” “institution,” “Applicant,” “investigator,” and “grantee.” “Agency”... whether the agency is interested in your proposal objectives—before investing time to prepare an Application It would be unwise for a Grant Applicant to permit redundancies to creep into her/his proposal and thereby squander precious space in a document with stringent page limits xi xii GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK However, this book has no page limits Therefore, I have intentionally introduced redundancies... 233 233 233 234 234 235 235 236 240 242 243 246 247 249 250 251 252 253 253 254 254 254 255 256 257 257 258 259 259 259 260 262 263 268 268 269 269 275 275 276 277 278 ix x GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK APPENDIX IV: ABOUT GRANT APPLICATIONS TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) Information about NSF National Science Foundation (NSF) More about NSF The role of NSF Words of Wisdom from Scientists... This fourth edition of Grant Application Writer’s Handbook is my last book on proposal writing As I would like it to be useful for some time to come, I am omitting many of the details that are likely to change and cause the book to fall into oblivion in too short a time Thus, I have focused primarily on the general concepts that will help the reader write good proposals, Grant Applications, research... Research Administration, Stanford University Thanks also go to: • Philip R Conley, former Director of Library Services, Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts, Inc., who graciously helped me find information about foundation grants over the years xvii xviii GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK • Sherwin (Sam) Lehrer, PhD, Senior Scientist, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, my husband, for his help and... expository writing Since the publication of my previous book, Grant Application Writer’s Handbook (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1995), a large amount of information has become available online via the Internet This has made available to anyone with access to a computer and modem a wealth of information about many subjects related to the Grant Application process, including funding sources The digitization... a final revision and proofread, and then finalize the proposal and the rest of the application SOME GENERAL INFORMATION FOR BEGINNING GRANT APPLICATION WRITERS What is a grant? A grant is a form of sponsorship for a project, the ideas for which generally originate with and are designed and carried out by the Applicant Grants can be classified according to: ■ Type of activity or activities supported . 175 Submitting a Revised Application 175 Recap for Part VII: Summary Statements, Rebuttals, and Revisions 177 GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK vii viii GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK PART VIII:. Jones and Bartlett Web site, www.jbpub.com. x GRANT APPLICATION WRITER’S HANDBOOK xi INTRODUCTION This fourth edition of Grant Application Writer’s Handbook is my last book on proposal writing a Grant Application 4 What Does It Take to be a Successful Grant- Getter? 6 Successful grant- getters understand 6 Some General Information for Beginning Grant Application Writers 8 What is a grant?