Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application

✍ Scribed by Otto O. Yang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 98
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant, 2nd edition is a fully updated follow-up to the popular original. It is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There is little or no formal teaching about the process of writing grants for NIH, and many grant applications are rejected due to poor writing and weak formulation of ideas. Procuring grant funding is the central key to survival for any academic researcher in the biological sciences; thus, being able to write a proposal that effectively illustrates one's ideas is essential. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this volume offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. Included are a number of specimen proposals to help shed light on the important issues surrounding the writing of proposals. The Guide is a clear, straight-forward, and reader-friendly tool. Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Writing is based on Dr. Yang's extensive experience serving on NIH grant review panels; it covers the common mistakes and problems he routinely witnesses while reviewing grants.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Overview: Overall Goals When Writing Grant Applications....Pages 1-2
Organization and Use of This Guide....Pages 3-4
Preparing to Write....Pages 5-8
Types of NIH Grants....Pages 9-10
Anatomy of the NIH Grant Application....Pages 11-14
Starting to Write: Planning the Aims and Overcoming Writer’s Block....Pages 15-18
Organization and Writing Style....Pages 19-24
Figures and Tables....Pages 25-30
Specific Aims....Pages 31-34
Research Strategy: Significance....Pages 35-39
Research Strategy: Innovation....Pages 41-42
Research Strategy: Approach....Pages 43-49
Bibliography and References Cited....Pages 51-53
Use of Appendices....Pages 55-55
Collaborators and Consultants....Pages 57-58
Training and Career Development Grants....Pages 59-62
Administrative Sections and Submission Process....Pages 63-68
Scoring Process....Pages 69-76
Resubmitting an Application....Pages 77-81
Non-NIH Grants....Pages 83-84
Conclusions....Pages 85-85
Back Matter....Pages 87-90

✦ Subjects

Education (general); Teaching and Teacher Education; Learning & Instruction; Life Sciences, general