One of the most important practices in good grant writing is editing. A first draft is very rarely perfect, and the best writers spend time editing and re-writing their work. Even if you come from a discipline where writing is not a primary focus, you can use the below tips to help you to figure […]
Proposal Writing Advice
Proposal Writing Advice
Six Years, Four Points: Advice on Grant Writing
As soon as I got to graduate school, I began to feel the pressure to get external funding for my research. When I started my program, however, finding, deciding to apply, and then putting together an application seemed like an arduous, complex, and unnecessary process to me. In my first year, I remember having a conversation […]
Applying for Grants and Fellowships as an International Student – Part Two
Series note: The following post is the second installment in the Applying for Grants and Fellowships as an International Student series. Click here to read Part One. Confronted with the challenging situation of having limited external funding options to support their graduate career and research, international students often come to believe in certain myths that hold them […]
Applying for Grants and Fellowships as an International Student – Part One
It would not be wrong to say that my introduction to the world of external funding happened when I started my doctoral program in Anthropology at Rutgers. As an international student coming from a country that has very limited external grant and fellowship options for study and research in higher education, I was both excited […]
Describing a Research Project Before You Have One
A common requirement for grant applications is that you describe your project. It’s a reasonable request for the people offering you money to want to know what you’ll do with it. However, a lot of us enter graduate school without knowing what we’re going to study while we’re here. Particularly in the lab sciences, many […]
How to Write a 500-Word Application
Often funders will set low word count limits for essay within grant or fellowship applications. It eases the organization’s review process, but puts applicants in a bind. How do you sum up potentially years of complex field specific data into a clear and concise 500-word essay? My points below are drawn from my experience with the Hall Rothman […]
Keeping Your Reviewer in Mind: Merging the Worlds of the Unfamiliar with the Familiar
As graduate students, we like to stay in our cozy, academic silos. Why? Because there, we are free to use our jargon with ease, our colleagues will likely be familiar with our theoretical frameworks, and our research methods are generally accepted. But what happens when we must venture out into the world of funding agencies, where […]
Proposal Writing 101 (Throwback Thursday)
Series note: The following post is part of the GradFund Throwback Thursday blog series. From time to time, we will repost one of our most popular blog posts from years past. If you are interested in learning more about research grants and fellowships to support your graduate study, be sure to visit the GradFund Knowledgebase. At a basic […]
A Bronx Approach to Research and Funding
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. “Scientist” doesn’t […]
Applying for the Fulbright IIE: GradFund Conversations Roundup
Are you considering applying for Fulbright IIE Fellowship this season? If so, please contact Assistant Dean Teresa Delcorso-Ellmann immediately to receive critical information about the application process. Please also review the following blog post from GradFund’s analysis of over 100 past Fulbright applications. As the series note reads, “Using a number of different statistical techniques, […]