Proposal Writing and Planning

There are many resources available for developing your grant writing and proposal development skills. Here are some of the best:

STYLE MANUALS & CITATION GUIDES

GENERAL REFERENCE

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GRANT WRITING

A Practical Guide for Writing Proposals
Alice Reid

Foundation Center Learning Lab -- Virtual Classroom
Foundation Center

Grant Proposal.com

Grant Proposal Writing Guides
United Nations

Grantwriting Tools for Non-profit Organizations
Non-profit Guides

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
S. Joseph Levine, Michigan State University

Guidebook for New Principal Investigators
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Proposal Checklist -- Social Sciences
Deborah Kluge

Proposal Pointers, Tips and Pitfalls
Deborah Kluge

Proposal Preparation
Small Business High Technology Institute

Proposal Writing Short Course
Foundation Center

Geever, Jane C. The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th edition. New York: The Foundation Center, 2007.

Browning, Beverly A. Grant Writing for Dummies, 2nd edition. New York: Wiley Publishing, 2005.

PLANNING

Logic Model
University of Wisconsin-Extension

Logic Model Development Guide
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

EVALUATION

Evaluation Toolkit
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The 2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation
National Science Foundation

Evaluation of Educational Development Projects
National Science Foundation

Online Evaluation Resource Library
Supported by the Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation

Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) for science, math, engineering and technology instructors
National Institute for Science Education's (NISE) College Level One (CL-1) Team, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Student Assessment of Their Learning Gains
Hosted by the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research (WCER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

STYLE MANUALS & CITATION GUIDES

Citation Machine
The Landmark Project's automatic citation maker

Documentation Styles
The Writer's Handbook, University of Wisconsin-Madison

How to Cite Your Sources: First Things First!
Midlink Magazine (North Caroline State Univ. & Univ. of Central Florida)

Easy Bib
Free automatic bibliography and citation maker

GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION

University Writing Program, UNH: Writing Resources - Handouts
http://owl.unh.edu/resources.html

Guide to Grammar and Style
Jack Lynch

Strunk, W., Jr., and White, E.B. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Modern Language Association of America. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th edition). New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

Truss, Lynn. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. New York: Gotham Books, 2004 (hardcover); 2006 (paperback).