Grant Writing Resources for Graduate Students

Grant Writing  

Grant Writing: The Complete Workbook for Writing Grant Proposals That Win by Mary Gladstone-Highland. 

Writing Personal Statements Online by Joe Schall

Grant-Writing and Sample Applications by the NIH. (Tips, processes, FAQs, and sample applications for biomedical sciences)

Advice on Writing Proposals to the National Science Foundation by Susan Finger (2015 update of a 1980s-era NSF document)

The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science by Scott L. Montgomery 

BioScience Writers article library by various (excellent short guides on many STEM topics, especially The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page –Kelly Holob)

Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals by Susan Howlett and Renee Bourque 

The Only Grant-Writing Book You’ll Ever Need by Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox 

STEM-Specific Writing Resources 

Writing Science in Plain English by Anne E. Greene (especially for supplying examples of good and not-good writing)

Writing in the Sciences by Kristin Sainani (free online via Coursera through Stanford Online)

“The Science of Scientific Writing” by George Gopen and Judith Swan

Writing Successful Science Proposals, Friedland et. al. 

Writing Science: how to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded by Joshua Schimel 

Academic Writing

Writing Recommendation Letters: A Faculty Handbook by Joe Schall