Series of Grant Writing Workshops Introduction:

The Student Council for Integrated Education Research and Development (CIERD) would like to present a series of grant writing workshops to develop proposal writing skills among Duke graduate students. The first goal of these grant writing workshops is to provide a basic foundation for grant writing. Topics may include developing an idea for a grant proposal and transferring that idea into a narrative, locating funding sources, outlining a budget and writing cover letters. Different grant writing styles and information about the grant review process will be presented. We will make these workshops more widely beneficial by providing material covered in the workshops on the CIERD webpage as well as videotaping some of the workshops. Our second goal is to guide students through writing their own grants. Students will work individually or in teams developing their research ideas into grant proposals throughout the workshops series. Those students who are already working on existing grant proposals can receive feedback on their writing from experienced faculty members and ORS coordinators. In addition to our goals outlined above these workshops will help to foster collaborations among attending students. Grant writing workshops will also develop participants' teamwork experience and facilitate interdisciplinary initiatives at Duke University. 

To accomplish our goals we have divided the program of each workshop into two sections. The first section will address concepts and writing skills involved in grant preparation, as well as present case studies from specific grant proposals. We structured the first part of each workshop in such a way that students can attend either all or just selected workshops without feeling lost. On average this part of a workshop will last for about 40 minutes.