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Effective Writing for Health Care

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Writing Grant Proposals

In this specialized track of Effective Writing for Health Care, you will learn strategies and develop skills that optimize outcomes for grant-funding proposals. Along with guidance from writing coaches, a personal editor and a faculty mentor, you will produce a submission-ready grant proposal.

This includes:

  • Matching your proposal to the right funding organization
  • Avoiding common grant-writing mistakes
  • Developing proposals that reviewers can readily understand on their first reading
  • Optimizing your grant proposal for the reviewer audience
  • Conveying the uniqueness, value and impact of your work
  • Communicating the importance of the significance, innovation and approach of your proposal
  • Developing the following grant proposal sections:             
    • Project Summary
    • Narrative Summary
    • Specific Aims
    • Research Strategy
    • Biographical Sketch
    • Budget Justification
    • Human Subjects
    • Vertebrate Animals
    • Resource-Sharing Plan
    • Facilities and Other Resources
    • Equipment
    • Bibliography and References Cited
Unique to this program are the following educational elements:
  • Review and analysis of strategies from successful grantees
  • Strategies to harness the power of data presentation
  • Expert guidance to maximize grant proposal effectiveness
  • Education developed by faculty with significant experience writing NIH grants (F, K, R, P, U) and foundation grants
  • Comprehensive instruction on grant-writing best practices
  • The perspectives of grant reviewers
  • Post-submission phase navigation
  • Tactics to leverage constructive feedback from external reviewers and colleagues
  • Convey the confidence that you and your collaborators are able to implement the proposal
  • Best practices for developing and utilizing figures and tables
  • Education on financial-reporting requirements

Three Specialized Tracks

Writing for Medical and Scientific Journals
Writing for the Public
Writing Grant Proposals
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