Here's a compilation of responses I received.
Thanks to all those who responded.
David Inouye
Robert Day's books on Scientific writing were the ones that I used many
years ago and found quite helpful. Not sure if there are updated versions,
and also realizing that its now been a while since I was in graduate
school.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Publish-Scientific-Paper/dp/1573561657
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David, this outfit did a daylong workshop here
last week. I thought it was well organized and
they had quite a number of constructive
suggestions, even for the more experienced among
us. Their workbooks are available for separate purchase on their website.
http://www.grantcentral.com/workbooks.html
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A friend of mine recommended this one a while ago, pretty good:
<http://www.amazon.com/Grant-The-Money-Practical-Successful-ebook/dp/B00CUJWNBI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1388686006&sr=8-5&keywords=grant+me+the+money>http://www.amazon.com/Grant-The-Money-Practical-Successful-ebook/dp/B00CUJWNBI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1388686006&sr=8-5&keywords=grant+me+the+money
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There are any number of such "guides" on Amazon.com.
However, the frank truth is that if you have the guidelines for any
grant organization they are usually sufficient.
The Foundation Center has a lot of stuff that is useful online.
Here is a key one:
The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing.
I used these when taking Grantsmanship many years ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Proposal-Writing-Human-Services-Guides/dp/0803932324/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1395839842&sr=8-21&keywords=proposal+writing
here is one I spotted that might be useful:
http://www.amazon.com/Having-Success-NSF-Practical-Guide/dp/1118013980/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1395840140&sr=8-15&keywords=Grantsmanship
In general, though, if she does not have a specific question to fund,
she might be better applying for student fellowships. Like many
things, and I know you know this, the best way to learn to write
proposals is to start writing them and stop reading about them! :)
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I found this book useful and practical:
Schimel, J 2012: Writing Science: How to write
papers that get cited and proposals that get funded, Oxford
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A compilation would be great. I am a postdoc and
trying to find out how it works too. There do not
seem to be courses or too many books etc out. I
feel this could be something worthwhile to put
into a scientific methods modules alongside with
scientific writing and poster presentation but so
far no one at my university has been jumping at the opportunity.
I found a few websites but these were often based
on one funding body (NIH, ERC). The other really
interesting questions is: where do you find
funding sources in the first place? For Europe we have, for example:
British ecological society
European research council
Alexander von Humboldt
Emily Noether
Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft
Marie Curie
AXA
Volkswagen Stiftung
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Society of Experimental Biologists
Future Oceans
Marine Biological Association
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
....
These are the things I found by trawling the net
and chatting to people but there are only few
sites (DAAD) that compile a list of these
opportunities. THis would also be interesting to
compile. So, not sure I helped much, but at least
you can tell your student that she is in good
company looking for money and not knowing how!
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I strongly recommend Scientific Writing and
Communication: Papers, Proposals, and
Presentations by Angelika H. Hofmann (2010; Oxford University Press.
Also, I would recommend that the student check
out the Foundation Center:
<http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/learnabout/proposalwriting.html>http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/learnabout/proposalwriting.html.
It's aimed more at nonprofit grant writing, but
they have a book, The Foundation Center's Guide
to Proposal Writing, which may be helpful. They
also offer grant writing classes.
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Here are a few good resources:
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/grant-proposals-or-give-me-the-money/
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/dsr/PDFs/howto.pdf
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/writing3.html
Of course, one of the most valuable resources are
examples of successful proposals. Many graduate
student groups maintain such examples - or are
able to provide a means for getting them. At UMD,
at least when I was there, the BEES grad student
organization and the ENTM student organizations
both supported the sharing of successful proposals.
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Stephen Russell and David Morrison have a Grant
Application and Writer's Workbook, published by
the Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops
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I taught a grad seminar last fall on grant
writing and used Friedland and Folt's "Writing
Successful Science Proposals." I think the
students liked it, and I did too. It states a
lot of things quite plainly that students are
probably already somewhat aware of, but it's good
to have it written out clearly. We had good
discussions, and if I teach the seminar again,
I'll use the book more heavily. It has lots of
ideas for exercises to help develop ideas and
figure out how to best present them.
Nick
here's the book
<http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Successful-Science-Proposals-Edition/dp/0300119399>http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Successful-Science-Proposals-Edition/dp/0300119399
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We have a list of links for grant proposal
writing resources on the ESA Ecophys site:
http://biology.duke.edu/jackson/ecophys/writing.html
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Josh Schimel¹s book "Writing Science: how to write papers that get cited
and proposals that get funded" has been a fantastic resource for helping
improve my lab groups writing. It doesn¹t cover the nuts and bolts of
grant writing, but is focused on composing a compelling narrative.
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