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Grant writing is designed to persuade a company to provide funding for a project, good, or service based upon the elements of the proposal. The proposal must cover basic information letting the person know key information about a particular need. The reader wants to find out quickly and easily the answers to these questions.
- What do you want to do, how much will it cost, and how much time will it take?
- How does the proposed project relate to the sponsor's interests?
- What difference will the project make to: your university, your students, your discipline, the state, the nation, the world, or whatever the appropriate categories are?
- What has already been done in the area of your project?
- How do you plan to do it?
- How will the results be evaluated?
- Why should you, rather than someone else, do this project?
These questions will be answered in different ways and receive different emphases depending on the nature of the proposed project and on the agency to which the proposal is being submitted. Most agencies provide detailed instructions or guidelines concerning the preparation of proposals (and, in some cases, forms on which proposals are to be typed); obviously, such guidelines should be studied carefully before you begin writing the draft.
Grant Writing Terms
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