Grant Writing - narrative, articulation & clarity
Course description
How to be a Narrative Ninja......
Do you know the single most important thing that determines the quality of a piece of academic writing? You might think it is the idea that you have. Or perhaps it is the literature on which you base your research question. Maybe it is the theory you choose. While all these things are important, none of them is as important as the narrative that you construct in your writing.
The single most common reason given for rejection of grant applications and submissions to journals is lack of clarity in the narrative.
This workshop will show you why narrative is so important and how to construct a narrative for a grant application. There will be demonstrations of creating a narrative and opportunity to practice creating your own narrative for either a part of your work or your whole work.
All participants are asked to bring along an idea for a grant, ideally with a 100-200 word summary.
The presenter is Maria Gardiner from ThinkWell.
Participants will need to present at the session to participate. Remote participation is not available for this session.
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for our research income training and development series:
- Grants Evolution Category 1
- Grants Evolution Category 2 & 3.
Type of course
Workshop
Who should attend
Researchers who intend to write application(s) for grant funding in 2019 and 2020, including:
- ECRs
- MCRs
- Established researchers
What you will learn
- why narrative is so important
- where you will find the narrative
- the power of the 10 year old, and if that doesn't work, the border collie
- how language gets in the way of narrative (initially)
- how to recognise narrative in others work
- how to write the narrative of you own piece of work
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