Project Lifecycle

Developing Your Proposal

Model Proposals

  • The National Institutes of Health has provided an invaluable tool for the proposal writer with its .
  • The Department of Health and Human Services “” (formerly "CRISP") system also allows you to look up proposals that have been funded.
  • Keep in mind that proposal guidelines may change over time. Something that was permitted under previous solicitations may not be permissible now.

Links to Writing Guides and Resources

Grammar and Language Usage

Other

  • Reappraised checklist aims to help readers assess whether a paper has flaws that call its integrity into question. Nature 577, 167-169 (2020)

Writing Guides

  • from the Social Science Research Council
  • from Foundation Center (Now known as Candid)
  • from Foundation Center (Now known as Candid)

Federal

  • from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
  • from the National Science Foundation
  • Video from NIH
  • from the National Science Foundation

General guides

  • - Human Frontier Science Program, Dr. Jacob Kraicer
  • - by Robert Porter at University of Tennessee
  • - by Robert Porter at University of Tennessee
  • - Kenneth T. Henson
  • by Matt Carter. (see chapter 14 for advice on grant proposals)
  • from USDA
  • by S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D. at Michigan State University
  • - Social Science Research Council
  • (from NIH, but widely applicable) -
  • - University of Michigan
  • from the Foundation Center
  • - George Gopen and Judith Swan, American Scientist
  • by Robert Porter at University of Tennessee
  • – a collection of articles in Science magazine
  • - by Robert Porter at University of Tennessee
  • (Now known as Candid)