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How To Write a Specific Aim – 3 Parts to a simple and clear aim that your reviewers will “get”

The Specific Aims (for NIH) or Objectives (NSF) are the key to what you are proposing. You want them to be not only clearly understandable to your reviewer (right?), but
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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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How to Avoid The Frame Clash with Your Reviewer

You and your reviewer have very different perspectives. If you don't understand the difference and take great care to ameliorate it, you will have far less chance of success. You'll
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NIH Grant Writing Tips – #1

That grant was submitted, and on its first round of submission, it got a score around 5th percentile. My colleague helped me turn my grant proposal from junk into a more than fundable proposal - simply by looking at my specific aims, and nothing else.
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