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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 …

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 …

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Telling Science Stories in Research Grants: Lessons from the Nonprofits

Academic Grantsmanship: Writing, Acadecmic Writing, and Story

Academic Grantsmanship: It’s the Details