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Welcome to the GradFund Blog

Follow the GradFund Blog for current advice and insights on best practices in applying for research support, written by the GradFund Fellowship Advising Team.

The Four “C”s of Grant Writing

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Ben Arenger

An effective grant application will be clear, concise, comprehensive, and compelling. These four “C”s may help you focus the drafting and revision process for any application. Clear Aim to describe your research project so that it is intelligible to an interdisciplinary review panel. Reviewers for award competitions often have to wade through hundreds of applications. […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: communication skills, proposal writing, writing advice

Fulbright, Greece, and GradFund

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Aaron Hershkowitz

Success in Grant Writing Series Editor’s Note: Welcome to the next installment of our Success in Grant Writing series, which will feature guest blog posts written by Rutgers graduate student winners of prestigious fellowships and grants. If you would like to share your experience with successful grant writing, please contact us through our website, gradfund.rutgers.edu Following the example […]

Filed Under: Success Stories Tagged With: Fulbright

Multiple Documents, One Story

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Ben Arenger

The multiple documents that comprise an award application should tell a single story. Since funder awards normally require some combination of a previous research statement, a biographical essay, and a research proposal, you will want to make sure that all of your essays cohere into a compelling narrative. Each of the documents serves a distinct purpose, of […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: consistent narrative, juggling multiple documents, the big picture

Securing Small Grants: Strategies and Benefits

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Liz Ballare

Success in Grant Writing Series Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first installment of our Success in Grant Writing series, which will feature guest blog posts written by Rutgers graduate student winners of prestigious fellowships and grants. If you would like to share your experience with successful grant writing, please contact us through our website, gradfund.rutgers.edu As […]

Filed Under: Biological Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Proposal Writing Advice, Success Stories, Understanding Award Types Tagged With: CLEA, Critical Language Enhancement Award, Ecology and Evolution, fieldwork, graduate research, small grants

Laying the Groundwork: Describing Your Preliminary Results

Posted on March 28, 2016 by rutgersgradfun

Hello, GradFund Readers! Whether you are a second-year PhD student preparing an NSF GRFP or an ABD (all but dissertation) PhD candidate applying for a Louis Bevier Dissertation Completion fellowship, effectively describing your preliminary research can make or break your chances of success. Today, we are going to discuss getting the most out of the […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: preliminary research, previous research

Pitch a Second Project: Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Ben Arenger

To be competitive for a postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities, you will need to describe your plans for a second project. Doctoral students who are still in the process of dissertation writing often find this to be a challenging task. You may wonder, “How I can I think about a second project when I haven’t […]

Filed Under: Humanities, Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice

Best Practices in Grantsmanship: Working with Institutional Contacts

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Teresa M. Delcorso-Ellmann

Best Practices in Grantsmanship Series note: Welcome to the second installment of Best Practices in Grantsmanship. In this series we will periodically post advice and suggestions that reflect best practices in grantsmanship. In the first installment, we introduced the key partnerships in the application process. Below, we address how to determine whether you will need to work with institutional contacts and the […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: ORSP

Best Practices in Grantsmanship: Key Partnerships during the Application Process

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Teresa M. Delcorso-Ellmann

Best Practices in Grantsmanship Series note: Welcome to the first installment of Best Practices in Grantsmanship. We will periodically post advice and suggestions that reflect best practices in grantsmanship. Applying for grants successfully rarely happened alone. While a researcher will be quick to point out that much about writing a grant application is a solitary […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: ORSP

What We Mean by “Start Early”

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Carolyn Ureña

At GradFund we often tell students about the benefits of “starting early” when it comes to working on fellowship and grant applications, but what does that really mean? How early is early enough? Read on for a sample month-by-month breakdown of what you should be doing to give yourself the best chances for writing a […]

Filed Under: Planning When to Apply

Applying for Funding in the Humanities: Advice from a Fellowship Adviser

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Ben Arenger

With the spring semester in full swing, now is a good time to start planning ahead for the fall application deadline season. For students in the humanities, it is important to be aware of your external funding award options. To be sure, there is a higher concentration of grants and fellowships available at the stage […]

Filed Under: Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Early Graduate, Funder and Award Spotlight, Humanities, Predissertation, Understanding Award Types

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