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December 3, 20181Comments

Get Your Reviewer “hooked” on your Specific Aims page

Your reviewer makes a snap judgement within a few seconds of opening up your proposal to read. That snap judgement will heavily bias the remainder of your reviewer's interaction with

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November 15, 20182Comments

How to write your NIH Approach Section, without overloading yourself or your reviewer

In today's blog post, I made a short video (< 8 min) for you on the topic of writing the Approach Section of your NIH grant proposal. A lot of

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September 7, 20180Comments

Of Donuts and Grants

https://player.vimeo.com/video/287558320 What's a Donut Shop in Chicago got to do with writing great grant proposals? It's about giving the "customer" what she wants... Watch this short video to learn more.

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June 26, 20182Comments

How Too Much Objectivity Kills Your Grant Chances

Just observe a debate between any two human beings. You'll notice that it doesn't matter how many facts one side marshalls against the other. Just slamming the opponent with facts and data leads to deeper entrenchment. This often happens with grants, too. Here's a post on how to avoid that...

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September 8, 20170Comments

Snoozeville: Is Your Proposal Lulling Your Reviewer to Sleep?

Trying to get your proposal “right” on the first round of writing? That’s a recipe for failure… Many of the scientists I work with try to approach grant writing as if

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