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Tips for your NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Grant Application

Tips for your NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Grant Application. Zoe Ziliak PhD Candidate in Linguistics ziliak@ufl.edu. First rule:. Start early! Start at least one month before the deadline. First step. Visit the Division of Sponsored Research in Grinter Hall

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Tips for your NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Grant Application

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  1. Tips for your NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Grant Application Zoe Ziliak PhD Candidate in Linguistics ziliak@ufl.edu

  2. First rule: • Start early! • Start at least one month before the deadline.

  3. First step • Visit the Division of Sponsored Research in Grinter Hall • Open NSF account, get tips • Later, have them look over your documents

  4. Read ALL the available instructions • Program Solicitation (20 pages) • Grant Proposal Guide (GPG, 68 pages) • Application Guide (62 pages) • Really – It’s worth it

  5. If you have access to them • Read other successful proposals

  6. Don’t break any rules • Margins • Font size • Page length • Budget

  7. Know your audience • Definitely people in your field (Linguistics, Chemistry) • Probably people in your subfield (Sociolinguistics, biochemistry) • Probably not people working on your specific area of research (acquisition of the Northern Cities Chain Shift)

  8. Content of the proposal • Use vigorous language with short, clear sentences • Get to the point – Why does this work need to be done, and why should you be the one to do it? • Give big picture so they know importance, but also enough specifics that it sounds like you know what you’re doing

  9. Content continued • DO give an adequate lit review • DON’T overlook Broader Impacts – Very important! • (Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts supposed to be interwoven in text, but I didn’t do this)

  10. How to get Broader Impacts • Inventions? Improvements? • Donations to causes – I donated my interviews to a museum • I.e., if you don’t have any, create some!

  11. Appearance of your proposal • Use underlining, bold, italics, etc. • Bullet points are good • Use larger font, wider margins, etc. if possible – Make it easy on the readers’ eyes

  12. Have lots of other people read your proposal • Committee members • Other people who get lots of grants • Somebody who doesn’t know (much) about your project

  13. Budget • Pad correctly – add a few dispensable items, don’t pretend things cost more than they do

  14. Budget (continued) • Your chances may improve if you’re well under the limit • MAKE SURE to ask someone in the DSR to check your budget for you!

  15. Questions, comments? • ziliak@ufl.edu

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