Writing a Successful Proposal
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Writing an effective proposal is the key to getting funding that makes all research possible.
NSF Guidelines
Excerpts of NSF guideline for reviewing a proposal
- What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity?
- Potential considerations: How important is the proposed activity to advancing knowledge and understanding within its own field or across different fields?
- To what extent does the proposed activity suggest and explore creative and original concepts?
- How well conceived and organized is the proposed activity? Is there sufficient access to the necessary resources?
- What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?
- Potential considerations: How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning?
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
DARPA questions
- What is the problem?
- What is the state-of-the-art?
- What is the main barrier to overcoming the problem?
- What is your solution to the problem that will lead to a quantum jump
- What is the impact of your solution?