NSF Grant Application Webcast Library
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Your NSF Grant Application Webcast Library Includes: |
| Webcast 1: Starting the Grant Application Process: Identifying Your Topic, Crafting Your Objectives and Making a Plan . First you must determine whether your idea belongs at NSF and whether you qualify as an applicant. If so, then you can launch the application process, which includes several crucial steps. No matter how good or important your project may seem to you and your colleagues, it won’t even be reviewed if it fails to meet NSF funding requirements.Inside this 35-minute Webcast, you will find expert guidance for:
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| Webcast 2: Merit Review Criteria: Understanding Your Audience and Reviewers . Consider these comments by one NSF program director: “Know your audience and communicate with them effectively. Write your proposal so that it gives the reviewers what they need to understand, not what you want to say.” “Know your audience.” That is important advice for anyone writing anything, but it is especially critical when writing a grant proposal. Your proposal is not being written for your friends or colleagues, for your department chair or tenure committee, or for the government or taxpayers. It is being written for a program director and some reviewers. That is your audience. That is your only audience.During this 40-minute Webcast, your expert presenter will also explore the criteria by which this audience will judge your proposal. These criteria are unique to NSF, and they amount to far more than just “write clearly and have a hypothesis.” |
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| Webcast 3: Presenting Your Project and Your Individual Qualifications: Writing the Project Summary and Preparing Biographical Sketches . This section of your NSF application is important for at least two reasons. First, it sets the tone of your proposal; ideally, it attracts the attention and piques the interest of reviewers. Second, it directly addresses the most important criteria used in merit review at NSF: intellectual merit and broader impacts.If your Project Summary fails to specifically and separately address those two criteria, NSF will return your proposal without review. That’s how important those criteria are, and that’s how important the Project Summary is.So, in this 38-minute Webcast,your expert presenter looks at what makes a good Project Summary. You will also examine biographical sketches and look at some ways to use them creatively to enhance your proposal. |
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| Webcast 4: Successfully Documenting Your Resources and Commitment to the Research Community . A major component of the intellectual merit criterion concerns access to resources. Together with your biographical sketch and other evidence of your team’s qualifications, documenting the resources of your institution establishes your suitability to tackle the project you have proposed. In addition, these descriptions can portray your institution as one worthy of an NSF investment, especially if you are considering an equipment grant. This section of the proposal, therefore, should not be taken lightly.Inside this 28-minute Webcast, you will find expert guidance for:
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| Webcast 5: Demonstrating the Significance of Your Research Topic: Preparing the Project Description . The meat of your proposal, where you describe in detail the activities you aim to undertake, is the Project Description. When you talk about writing a grant, it is almost certainly the Project Description you have in mind. It is the main attraction. It is the place where you make the case for your ideas and your plan.There are some specific things you need to know as you tackle the Project Description, and we will discuss them in this Webcast. But the main tools you will need are tools we have already emphasized in previous Webcasts in this Library. You will need to write clearly and succinctly; you will need to think like a reviewer and remain reviewer-focused; and you will need to specifically highlight the broader impacts of your work. This is why the Webcast on the building of the main attraction is the fifth of seven — those tools are central to your success.Inside this 33-minute Webcast, you will find expert guidance for:
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| Webcast 6: Budgeting and Special Considerations: Preparing Your Budget & Dealing with Special Circumstances . If the Project Description is the “main event,” then the budget and the preparation of supplementary materials must seem like sideshows or petty annoyances. But in fact, these elements are fundamental components of your application. Putting together a clear and well-justified budget requires careful thought — the same kind that is necessary to generate a strong and compelling research proposal.Inside this 30-minute Webcast, you will find expert guidance for:
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| Webcast 7: Submission and Review of Your Proposal: Submitting Your Proposal Using the NSF Fastlane System and What Comes After That . In the previous six Webcasts, we have walked through the process of preparing the key aspects of an NSF proposal. If you have completed all of those steps, then you are quite close to the end. Really, all you need to do is upload those files to a website — it takes about ten minutes.Just kidding. Submitting your proposal is a bit more complicated than that, and it is likely that you have a few tasks to complete before you have all the parts of your application assembled. In this final chapter, we will look at the tasks that constitute the end game in this process.Inside this 22-minute Webcast, you will find expert guidance for:
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| Webinar Format | CD-Rom, MP4 |
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