This online workshop gives you strategies and tools to craft grant proposals that meet the needs and expectations of your readers. We consider how to start, how to move from your idea to proposal, how to create clarity and flow in your writing, how to find and strengthen the structure of your drafts, and how to more effectively read and revise your own writing.
- The proposal writing process and your own writing style. Overcoming writer's block and how to make writing part of your daily research.
- Strategies for starting and creating your game plan. Moving from paper to proposal writing. How proposal writing can improve your paper writing.
- Tools for crafting your draft and finding your storyline: focused freewriting, macrotexting, outlining, speedwriting, storyboarding, and reverse engineering text.
- Meeting the needs of a grant proposal reader. Managing reader energy and assessing readability of text.
- How to write clear, concise, and compelling sentences that communicate your ideas and persuade your readers.
- Telling a coherent and cohesive story: the secrets to creating smooth, readable texts.
- Writing a clear and persuasive summary page that meets expectations.
- Strategies for revising: seeing your own writing as a reader does and diagnosing problems.
- Polishing your proposal and using online writing tools.
