Grant Writing Course- Session 5: “Research Strategy – Part II: Approach”

GRANT WRITING COURSE – FALL 2022
Session 5: “Research Strategy – Part II: Approach”

Thursdays from October 13 to December 15, 2022 at 12:00-1:00 pm

This 8-week Grant Writing Course, created by the MGH Science Writing Group led by Becca Ward, PhD, returns for the second year. It is open to all MGH faculty and trainees. There is no requirement to attend every session, but you are highly encouraged to do so.

This fifth session, led by Dr. Ward, focused on the following topics:

• Arranging an Approach Section
• Writing your experimental design
• Creating the Pitfalls and Alternative Approaches Section
• Deciding the statistical information to provide
• Addressing scientific rigor in Approach Section
• Explaining potential biological variables
• Formatting and common errors

Presenter: Becca Ward, PhD, Medical Writer and Program Manager

Other Grant Writing Course sessions

• Session 1 Before You Write on October 13
• Session 2 Specific Aims, Project Summary, and Project Narrative on October 27
• Session 3 Research Strategy – Part I: Significance, Innovation, and Preliminary Data on November 3
• Session 4 Supporting Documents: Environment, Biological/Chemical, Vertebrate Animals on November 10
• Session 6 Human Subjects on December 1
• Session 7 Budgets and Personnel Documents on December 8
• Session 8 Documents for Unique Situations: Introduction & Multi-PI Plans on December 15