National award focused expectations | - Understand funding agency expectations and requirements
- Highlight applicants' qualities and abilities to meet the expectations
of the opportunity-funding organization
- Frame applicants' research, professional, and/or career
interests to align with the program mission
- Present a compelling case for
the proposed research or project
- Integrate relevant details about applicants' lives and experiences to develop an application that stands out and gets noticed
- Address the specific requirements of applications, such as targeted (short-answer) questions and length limits
- Emphasize applicants' strengths; re-frame their limitations and weaknesses in a positive light
- Communicate with mentors and others in their network to arrange for letters of recommendation and other support materials
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Cross-disciplinary genre expectations
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- Develop content or subject matter in ways that meet the expectations of the funding review committee
- Outline, organize, and coordinate application materials
- Articulate the significance of research topics to the field
- Describe research methods in a clear and credible way
- Frame, position, and weigh propositions in a coherent discussion
- Articulate the value and contribution of their education, research, and career goals to the field
- Critically evaluate and refine their application writing according to academic expectations
- Understand the organization, communicative goals, and writing strategies of funding application genres (e.g., scholarships, fellowships, and grants)
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Scholarly communication conventions
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- Differentiate among types of competitive applications (e.g., scholarships, fellowships, and grants)
- Understand the scope, aims, audience, and quality of awards and identify appropriate funding opportunities
- Understand ethical issues in scholarly writing
- Understand application requirements and the selection process
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Academic and professional development
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- Identify academic writing conventions using scholarly resources
- Locate literature relevant to applicants’ research focus using library search engines and resources
- Effectively use writing technologies (e.g., electronic collections of texts, search engines for linguistic data)
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