How to Write an Abstract for a Grant Proposal

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Tip 1 - Abstract Killers: How Not to Kill a Grant Application, Part Two

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jill amp Lester | permalink

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For further reading: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_01_28/nodoi.6121337555966524467 ^[1]

Tip 2 - The Art of the Grant Proposal Abstract is Like the Art of the Newspaper Story Lead

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Gunther Van Houdt | permalink

Proposal abstracts are funny beasts: they’re supposed to summarize an entire proposal, presumably before the reader reads the proposal, and they’re often written before the writer write...

For further reading: http://blog.seliger.com/2011/01/30/the-art-of-the-grant-proposal-abstract-is-like-the-art-of-the-lead/ ^[2]