The following sites provide helpful information about scientific proposal and report writing. The sites, particularly those for general writing tips, may provide more guidance and ideas to present experiments for scientists writing research project plans. Most of the resources available are intended for grant-writing audiences. Though the Office of Scientific Quality Review manages the intramural peer review of ARS's research project plans for quality and improvement purposes (vs. funding purposes), we believe the skills acquired while learning to write a grant proposal are very similar to the skills needed to write a project plan. Thus, we encourage our scientists to build their grant-writing skills, as well as their general scientific writing skills. These sites are not necessarily endorsed by the Agricultural Research Service and are intended to be used in support of internal guidance and training only. If you would like to add links to this list, please contact us at osqr@ars.usda.gov
GENERAL WRITING TIPS FOR SCIENTISTS
Grantsmanship Hints Article written by James S. Schepers, USDA, ARS, E. John Sadler, USDA, ARS, and William R. Raun, Oklahoma State University. Published in the Agronomy Journal 92(1):1-5, 2000. Grantsmanship Hints
Bioscience Guidelines for Writing Applications http://www.bioscience.org/services/grant1.htm
Columbia University Grant Proposal Writing http://www.cpmcnet.columbia.edu/research/writing.htm
The Foundation Center The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing http://www.fdncenter.org/getstarted/learnabout/proposalwriting.html
TIPS FOR SCIENTIFIC WRITING
Published by NOAA http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ftproot/ssd/html/writetip.htm
Dr. Naline Nadkarni, Ecologist and Science-writing advisor How to Write a Proposal or Research Report http://192.211.16.16/curricular/bgc1998/report.tips.html
Indiana University Guides for better science research, writing, and presentation http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/14-05.html
University of Virginia - Charlottesville How to Write a Winning Proposal and Get Those Grants http://www.virginia.edu/~trc/grantsbook.htm
The Whitaker Organization Proposal Writing http://whitaker.org/sanders.html
University of Wisconsin-Madison Grants Information Center http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/grants/proposal.htm
Virginia Tech Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Student http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/writing/
SEMINARS
Iowa State University USDA's competitive grants program: Information and guidelines for successful grantsmanship (Old, but gives an idea of what's been done before) http://www.ent.iastate.edu/entsoc/ncb99/prog/abs/165.html
National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Grants (Offered Nationwide) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/seminars.htm
COLLEGE COURSES ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WRITING
North Carolina State University (scroll down to this entry) 333 Communication for Science and Research http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/english/spr2000.html
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