Tag: grant writing

Academic Grantsmanship: Writing, Acadecmic Writing, and Story

Academics are professional writers. We write all the time. We write books and scholarly articles about our research interests. We write a variety of proposals (grant, book, curriculum etc.). We write teaching materials for our classes. We write internal reports as a service to the university. We write reviews of our colleague’s work. Sometimes we …

Academic Grantsmanship: It’s the Details

Grantsmanship requires a perverse sense of detail. Details begin with the RFP. Application forms contain even more details. Reading and rereading the RFP or grant announcement is the first step of grant proposal writing. Discerning, interpreting, and understanding those details takes well-developed critical thinking skills even when it comes to the comparatively easy ones. A …

What is Academic Grantsmanship? A few random thoughts.

Academic grantsmanship seems like a deadly dull topic for these late summer days.  The summer is far  from over, but it is back to school for many in higher education.  It is an ideal time to discuss the meaning and significance of grantsmanship for those preparing for the tenure track, on the tenure track, the tenured, …