How to Fail in Grant Writing <http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Fail-in-Grant-Writing/125620/> The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 5, 2010
Looking for the fast path to grant rejection? We provide a list here of proven techniques. We gathered these in the course of serving on grant panels or as program officers, and, in some cases, through firsthand experimentation. We are biologists, but many of our suggestions will be useful to grant writers in all disciplines. . . . Say that your grant is "transformative", something the National Science Foundation looks for in particularly outstanding grants; it means that your work will change the approach we take to a particular problem when it is clearly not. Say that more than once if possible. Heck, go ahead and boldface it! If you claim it is so, it is so. David W. Inouye Program Director Population and Community Ecology Cluster Division of Environmental Biology National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd, Suite 635 Arlington, VA 22230 Phone: 703.292.8570 Fax: 703.292.9064 E-mail: [email protected]
