Developing proposals: insights from behind the scenes

Anthony Haynes writes: This episode is the first in an occasional series entitled "Behind the scenes", in which we seek to provide guidance to the creators of grey literature based on our professional experience of working on grey literature genres. Here we focus on grant proposals. First, we examine proposals from the authors' point of view: we identify typical pitfalls and then distill a series of constructive pointers. And second, we provide insights into the textual detail of proposals, based on our experience of editing a multitude of proposals.Further listeningIf you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might find the following of interest:Writing reports successfully: a professional viewOur three-part series of episodes on writing book proposals, beginning hereReferences'Writing grant proposals' in the Writing Protocols series.Gerard M. Crawley & Eoin O'Sullivan, Grant Writer's Handbook (ICP)CreditsSound production: Bart HallmarkMusic: from Handel's Water Music, courtesy of the United States Marine Band and Marine Chamber OrchestraSupport the showAbout the publisherThis episode is published by Frontinus Ltd. We're a communications consultancy that helps organisations and individuals to communicate scientific, professional, and technical content to non-specialist audiences. We provide consultancy mentoringediting and writingtrainingand work on presentations, bids and proposals, and publications (for example, reports and papers).To learn more about services or explore ways of working together, please contact us via our website, http://frontinus.org.uk/.