Research Projects and Research Proposals: A Guide for Scientists Seeking Funding - Softcover

Chapin, Paul G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521537169 ISBN 13: 9780521537162

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Paul Chapin's guide to writing proposals for scientific research can be used by scientists in any discipline who submit papers to funding agencies to gain support for their research projects. A longtime program officer at the National Science Foundation, Chapin treats the proposal as one part of a larger process of planning a research project, which makes it easier to write and more likely to be effective. The book differs from other guides by treating proposal writing in the larger context of project planning from an insider's perspective. Paul G. Chapin became the first director of the NSF Linguistics Program when it was established in October 1975. He continued as NSF's Program Director for Linguistics until 1999, with three interruptions: one year serving as Deputy Division Director for Behavioral and Neural Sciences, one year's detail as a staff associate to the head of the Office of Information Systems, and a year's sabbatical leave to study mathematics at George Washington University. From 1999 until his retirement in 2001, Chapin served as a senior program officer for cross-disciplinary activities at the NSF. On the occasion of his retirement, the NSF presented him with the Director's Superior Accomplishment Award, and the Linguistic Society of America awarded him the first annual Victoria A. Fromkin Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession.

About this title

Book Description:

This book, written by a longtime program officer at the National Science Foundation, is a guide to writing good proposals for scientific research, that scientists in any discipline can submit to funding agencies to gain support for their research projects. It treats the proposal as one part of a larger process of planning a research project, which makes the proposal easier to write and more likely to be effective. The book differs from other guides to mreparing proposals in treating proposal writing in the larger context of project planning, and in the unique insider's perspective that the author's experience affords.

About the Author:

Paul G. Chapon was director of the National Science Foundation Linguistics Program. He is a member of the Linguistic Society of America and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521537169
• ISBN 13: 9780521537162
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172