Facilitating proposal development: helping faculty avoid common pitfalls. (Shop Talk).(National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health funding)

From: Journal of Research Administration | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Porter, Robert | Copyright information

With increasing pressure to obtain extramural funding, success in proposal writing becomes ever more important to colleges and universities. Though the characteristics of good proposal writing are well understood, success ratios remain low and most proposals are rejected on first reading. This paper discusses the dimensions of the problem, identifies some common proposal errors and pitfalls, and suggests techniques to avert them. It concludes that grants specialists can employ intervention ...

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