GRANT WRITING
certificate

This course introduces participants to the stages of the grant writing process: prewriting, writing, and editing. Participants will explore strategies for planning and organizing their ideas, developing outlines and drafts, and editing their writing. This course is designed to help participants streamline their writing process and produce high-impact grant proposals. The strategies introduced in this course are applicable to any federal or non-federal funding agency.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Apply effective prewriting strategies to develop, organize, and refine ideas for grant proposals.
• Develop organized outlines that establish the structure and narrative of grant proposals.
• Apply strategies for outlining and drafting clear and well-structured proposal content.
• Use editing techniques to strengthen clarity and concision in grant writing.
• Implement an efficient, repeatable writing process.

This course introduces the essential components of competitive grant proposals, including their purpose and function. Participants will learn how proposal components work together to communicate clear and compelling project narratives. We will explore: one pager documents, overview and objectives, significance, innovation, approach, research plans, broader impacts, supporting documents, and more. This course emphasizes understanding how individual components work together to communicate a clear, compelling, and cohesive project narrative. The strategies introduced in this course are applicable to any federal or non-federal funding agency.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify essential components of grant proposals.
• Describe the purpose and function of grant proposal sections.
• Organize proposal components into a clear and cohesive narrative.

This course teaches participants strategies to write concisely and how to cut clutter. We will cover techniques for writing in the active voice, avoiding nominalizations (converting verbs into nouns), selecting strong verbs, and ensuring sentences convey their main action. Participants will leave with the skills to craft concise proposals and identify clutter in their writing. The strategies introduced in this course are applicable to any federal or non-federal funding agency.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance of concise writing in grant proposals.
• Understand the importance of using strong, active verbs in grant proposals.
• Learn techniques to identify and remove clutter from your writing.
• Explore examples of successful grant proposals to illustrate key concepts.

This class teaches participants how to develop focused and organized paragraphs through the effective use of punctuation and parallelism. You will learn how to vary sentence structures, craft strong paragraphs, and use punctuation to improve clarity and impact in your writing. We will also explore techniques that make grant proposals more compelling and precise. The strategies introduced in this course are applicable to any federal or non-federal funding agency.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Implement techniques to vary sentence structure for dynamic writing.
• Understand the importance of crafting strong, coherent paragraphs.
  • Outline paragraphs effectively for grant proposals.
  • Practice writing focused and organized paragraphs.
  • Analyze examples of well-structured grant proposal paragraphs.

This class teaches participants how to develop focused and organized paragraphs through the effective use of punctuation and parallelism. You will learn how to vary sentence structures, craft strong paragraphs, and use punctuation to improve clarity and impact in your writing. We will also explore techniques that make grant proposals more compelling and precise. The strategies introduced in this course are applicable to any federal or non-federal funding agency.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Implement techniques to vary sentence structure for dynamic writing.
• Understand the importance of crafting strong, coherent paragraphs.
  • Outline paragraphs effectively for grant proposals.
  • Practice writing focused and organized paragraphs.
  • Analyze examples of well-structured grant proposal paragraphs.

Strong grant proposals are written with the reviewer in mind. This course introduces participants to strategies for critically evaluating and editing grant proposals. Participants will examine proposals for clarity, organization, alignment, and persuasiveness, with particular attention to identifying gaps, inconsistencies, unsupported claims, and areas that may raise reviewer concerns. Through structured review, examples, and editing exercises, participants will develop techniques for writing and making revisions that strengthen the overall proposal.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate grant proposals from the perspective of a reviewer.
• Identify gaps and inconsistencies in grant proposals.
• Apply editing strategies to improve the clarity, organization, and persuasiveness of proposal narratives.