Successful grant applications and the resulting research lead to ideas for further research and new grant proposals.Ĭultivating an ongoing, positive relationship with funding agencies may lead to additional grants down the road. Unsuccessful grant applicants must revise and resubmit their proposals during the next funding cycle. This is easier when you know what you plan to achieve before you begin the writing process.ĭiagram 1 below provides an overview of the grant writing process and may help you plan your proposal development.Īpplicants must write grant proposals, submit them, receive notice of acceptance or rejection, and then revise their proposals. What knowledge or information will be gained as a direct result of your project? Why is undertaking your research important in a broader sense? You will need to explicitly communicate this purpose to the committee reviewing your application. Many people start by defining their research question or questions. Although many people think of grant writing as a linear process (from idea to proposal to award), it is a circular process. Writing successful grant applications is a long process that begins with an idea. You may also find that thinking about your project in these terms reveals new aspects of it to you. Although some scholars in the humanities and arts may not have thought about their projects in terms of research design, hypotheses, research questions, or results, reviewers and funding agencies expect you to frame your project in these terms. You may have a topic or experiment in mind, but taking the time to define what your ultimate purpose is can be essential to convincing others to fund that project. Nonetheless, this handout attempts to provide a general introduction to grant writing across the disciplines.īefore you begin writing your proposal, you need to know what kind of research you will be doing and why. Grant writing varies widely across the disciplines, and research intended for epistemological purposes (philosophy or the arts) rests on very different assumptions than research intended for practical applications (medicine or social policy research). The grant writing processĪ grant proposal or application is a document or set of documents that is submitted to an organization with the explicit intent of securing funding for a research project. It’s targeted primarily to graduate students and faculty, although it will also be helpful to undergraduate students who are seeking funding for research (e.g. This handout will help you write and revise grant proposals for research funding in all academic disciplines (sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts). With gritty depictions of brutal battles, risky gambles, crushing setbacks and triumphant victories, Grant will take the viewer inside the moments that defined Grant and forever changed our nation.Grant Proposals (or Give me the money!) What this handout is about Grant’s meteoric rise is one of the unlikeliest stories in American history, but it wasn’t luck, it didn’t just happen by accident and it wasn’t easy. In the face of huge obstacles, Grant reunifies a fractured nation, battles the KKK and emerges as a champion of civil rights and equality for all Americans. Widely regarded as the greatest general of his generation, Grant is called to duty again to serve as president. Just a few years later, this quiet, unassuming man is in command of a million men, and it is his ingenious strategy and bulldog determination that wins the Civil War, re-unifies the Nation and helps bring freedom to 4 million former slaves. As the country falls apart around him, Grant bounces from job to job, at one point selling firewood on the streets to buy food for his family. At a time when the nation is being ripped apart over the issue of slavery, Grant marries into a slave-holding family and is forced to confront his own feelings about equality. With a seamless blend of dramatic scenes, expert commentary and beautifully enhanced archival imagery, this three-part miniseries uncovers the true legacy of the unlikely hero who led the nation during its greatest tests: the Civil War and Reconstruction.īorn into a humble family of abolitionists, Ulysses S. Grant tells the remarkable and quintessentially American story of a humble man who overcomes incredible obstacles, rises to the highest ranks of power and saves the nation not once, but twice.
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