WRA 453 Grant & Proposal Writing
Recent Class Materials
Syllabus

Session 25: Green Team Reviews for P3; prepare for budget/cost analysis Session 24: CV's [short] [long]
News and Updates Brief Schedule
This Week: P2 wrap up and proposal microstructure

Your To Do List through 12/1:
  1. Draft and post all deliverables for your P3 project
Student Pages
Bernhardt
Cottrell
Kennedy
McLeod
Nault
 Obrien
Perkins
Palinsky
Penniman

Helpful Links
Writing Winning Business Proposals

MSU Libraries Grant & Related Resources Page

In Class Exercises:
  1. Project page, session 2
  2. Proposal "slots" analysis, session 3
  3. P1 proposal, session 3
  4. Your P1 questions, session 4
  5. RFP analysis, session 5
  6. P1 research plan, session 6
  7. reconstruct Line of Argument for Knoblauch, session 7
  8. Proposal criteria, session 7/8
  9. Rate sample proposals in class, session 8
  10. Need statement for P2, session 10
  11. Need statement for P3, session 10
  12. PIP practice elevator speech session 16
  13. Logics worksheet + list of P3 deliverables, session 19
  14. Measurable Results Orientation statement(s), session 20
  15. P3 Summary, Session 21
  16. Psychologics worksheet (themes), Session 22
  17. Methods slot drafting PIP, Session 23
  18. Short CV, session 24
Date
In Class...
T 8/30Session 1 [PPT]: Introductions; Individual Project Pages; Send intro e-mail to Bill H-D
R 9/1Session 2 [PPT]:Discuss Tardy article; Intro to Proposal Process Shadowing Project; Post individual project page
T 9/6Session 3[PPT]: Discuss P1 ideas; review structural logic of proposal genre from Ch. 1 of WWBP Exercise: Plan your proposal for P1 using "baseline logic" of proposals from Ch. 2 of WWBP;
R 9/8Session 4[PPT]: Exercise: Tracing grant seeking projects in the WIDE center; Discuss Knoblauch article
T 9/13Session 5 [PPT]: Introduction to Project 3 - Proposing a Major Project or Initiative; Exercise: Reading and analyzing an RFP, ref. Ch.5 in WWBP
R 9/15Session 6 : P1 updates - present research plans; read Ch. 14 (summary of the proposal writing process) in WWBP
T 9/20Session 7: Evaluating proposal effectiveness 1: comparing proposal criteria; review Exhibit 14.6 in WWBP; Exercise: rating conference proposals.
R 9/22Session 8 P1 report format; Read Broadhead & Freed article; discussion of "sacred texts":
T 9/27Session 9[PPT] : Intro to P2 - internal, unsolicited proposal; review Appendix B (worksheets) and read Appendix D in WWBP;
R 9/29Session 10 [PPT]: P1 presentation format; share P2 project ideas
T 10/4Session 11 :Field trip! Meet in the Library, Basement Instruction Room
R 10/6Session 12 : P1 Presentations
T 10/11Session 13 : P1 Presentations
R 10/13Session 14 [PDF]: Proposing as a social act; Read Ch. 6 on "Themes" in WWBP; Exercise: P2 PIP practice or proposal microstructure; Read Appendix E in WWBP
T 10/18Session 15:P2" Green team reviews" (see Ch. 7 in WWBP) today;
R 10/20Session 16 [PPT]: Guest speaker: Grant research process
T 10/25Session 17 [PPT]: PIP Practice, Macro & Microstruture
R 10/27Session 18 : Wrap up P2, post all P2 materials on your project page; P3, review of "buyers" for your project
T 11/1Session 19: P3 Themes development worksheet
R 11/3Session 20 : P3 Drafting: Situation & Objectives slot;
T 11/8Session 21 [PPT]: P3 drafting: Short Project Summary
R 11/10Session 22 : Choosing Themes; Pyschologics Worksheet
T 11/15Session 23 PPT]: P3 drafting: Methods/Activities slot; establishing precedent and demonstrating novelty; review Ch. 9 in WWBP
R 11/17Session 24:Qualifications slot; representing your own work in the proposal and the short CV; review Ch. 11 in WWBP
T 11/22Session 25: Green Team reviews for P3; review Ch. 7 in WWBP
R 11/24Happy Thanksgiving!
T 11/29Session 26 : Budget and Cost Analysis/td>
R 12/1Session 27: Proposal review: How can organizations & individuals be continually successful proposal writers? Read Hart-Davidson,Spinuzzi, & Zachry proposal
T 12/6Session 28 :P3 Presentations
R 12/8Session 29: P3 presentations