Blog post DUE Tues. 11/10 – 4:30 pm
The website grantspace.org keeps a wonderful collection of real grant samples here: http://grantspace.org/tools/sample-documents
For this blog post assignment, pick one of the grant samples to read (feel free to pick one related to your own interests. And make sure you read one that is a full proposal – not just a cover letter or budget. Read the grant example and write a blog post of 3-4 paragraphs that does the following:
- Summarizes what the grant proposal is about and what the proposed money will be used for
- Discusses how the grant proposal does or does not meet your expectations of the genre
- Describes how it is similar to the proposals we are writing for this class
- Describes it is different from the proposals we are writing
I want you to be detailed and to consider our proposal assignment throughout your process of writing this post. Consider the difficulties of reading a grant proposal when removed from the context of the grant itself. Consider what it was that made these grant proposals successful. I highly recommend reading the great commentary that goes along with each grant proposal. You might also consider how this site itself could be considered a writing resource. My goal is that this post assignment will help you better understand the genre conventions of grant proposal writing.
Engl 106 / Fall 2015 