Seven Tips to Improve Grant Proposals

3. Paint word pictures. Don’t lecture readers in your proposal or delve into the technical intricacies of your field. Pay as much attention to the narrative of the proposal as a short-story writer would.

4. Write in equal parts from your heart and your head. As Teitel writes, “A proposal writer should be close enough to the work and the people who do it to infect the reader with the enthusiasm and dedication of those front-line people. Analysis without feeling just isn’t moving.”