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Telling Science Stories in Research Grants: Lessons from the Nonprofits

Nonprofit stories are about meeting a need. Scientific or research stories ask a question. Nonprofits use storytelling in grant proposals, marketing materials, annual campaigns, appeals, and other promotional documents. They do this so well that storytelling recently became a major theme of grant writing training opportunities. Similarities exist between the nonprofit world and the research …

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 …

Science, Research, the Sequester, and History

A Few Rambling Thoughts The scientific community was very vocal about the sequester if activities of my Twitter feed and hashtag searches are any indication. This blog gives a solid and concise summary of the expected cuts. What does this mean for scientific research? The short answer is fewer grants to fewer investigators. New investigators …

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Telling Science Stories in Research Grants: Lessons from the Nonprofits

Academic Grantsmanship: Writing, Acadecmic Writing, and Story

Science, Research, the Sequester, and History