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Grant Proposal

NSF-style proposal scaffold on the article class with Project Summary, Project Description, References Cited, and Budget Justification sections.

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This workspace is set up as an NSF-style grant proposal: Project Summary, Project Description with aims and timeline, References Cited, and Budget Justification. Tell me about the project and target program, and I will help draft each section.

What’s inside

  • Starter files
  • main.tex1.8 KB
    \documentclass[11pt]{article}
    
    \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{natbib}
    \usepackage{microtype}
    
    \newcommand{\projecttitle}{[Project Title]}
    
    \title{\projecttitle}
    \author{PI: [Your Name], [Institution]}
    \date{}
    
    \begin{document}
    
    \maketitle
    
    \section*{Project Summary}
    
    \paragraph{Overview.}
    One paragraph, written for a general audience: the problem, the
    approach, and what success looks like. Funders read this page first and
    sometimes only this page.
    
    \paragraph{Intellectual Merit.}
    What will be learned that is not known today, and why this team and
    approach can deliver it.
    
    \paragraph{Broader Impacts.}
    Who benefits beyond the field: training, infrastructure, outreach,
    societal outcomes.
    
    \newpage
    
    \section{Project Description}
    
    \subsection{Motivation and Objectives}
    
    State the gap in current knowledge and the two or three concrete
    objectives of the project. Ground the gap in the
    literature~\citep{shannon1948mathematical}.
    
    \subsection{Research Plan}
    
    Organize the plan by aims. For each aim: the question, the method, the
    expected outcome, and the fallback if the method fails.
    
    \paragraph{Aim 1.} [Question, method, expected outcome.]
    \paragraph{Aim 2.} [Question, method, expected outcome.]
    
    \subsection{Timeline and Milestones}
    
    Year 1: [milestones]. Year 2: [milestones]. Year 3: [milestones and
    dissemination].
    
    \subsection{Prior Support}
    
    Summarize results from prior awards, or state that there is none.
    
    \newpage
    
    \bibliographystyle{plainnat}
    \bibliography{references}
    
    \newpage
    
    \section*{Budget Justification}
    
    [Personnel: PI summer salary, one graduate student. Travel: one
    conference per year. Equipment and other direct costs: justify each
    line against the aims above.]
    
    % Ask the agent in the chat alongside this document to draft any
    % section from your notes, or to tighten the summary to one page.
    
    \end{document}
    
  • Libraries and docs
  • references.bib247 B
    @article{shannon1948mathematical,
      author  = {Shannon, Claude E.},
      title   = {A Mathematical Theory of Communication},
      journal = {Bell System Technical Journal},
      volume  = {27},
      number  = {3},
      pages   = {379--423},
      year    = {1948}
    }
    
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