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Mackie, Sylvia Anne; McArthur, Sally – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This study demonstrates the use of metaphor analysis in needs assessment for developmental support and shows how it can be used to critically examine assumptions in the literature about the ways emerging researchers conceptualize their career trajectory. We investigated the professional development needs of a group of science, technology,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Researchers, STEM Education, Grantsmanship
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Wiebe, Natasha G.; Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor – Journal of Research Administration, 2017
Obtaining external funding has become increasingly difficult for Canadian researchers in the social sciences and humanities. Our literature review suggests that grant-writing groups and workshops make an important contribution to increasing both applications for external funding and success in funding competitions. This article describes an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grants, Program Proposals, Proposal Writing
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Stevens-Smith, Deborah – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2016
This article covers the basic components of the submission process before submitting a proposal for the SHAPE America national convention. The article discusses various techniques specific to the process, including the unique discipline areas. Other issues addressed include an understanding of the SHAPE America review process and how it works,…
Descriptors: Program Proposals, Proposal Writing, Conferences (Gatherings), Physical Education Teachers
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Samiullah, Muhammad; Qadeer, Muhammad Zaigham – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2018
The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of communicative approach on proposal/synopsis writing skills of students at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad as it was found from the literature that Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) had a noteworthy influence to improve proposal writing skills. The researcher used the…
Descriptors: Proposal Writing, Writing Skills, Distance Education, Open Universities
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Reavis, David – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
When an organization's need for technology changes, users expect solutions to provide sophisticated and complex functionality regardless of the size of the organization's budget or available resources. In exploring candidates for filling software needs for nonprofit organizations, one of the best tools is the request for proposal (RFP). This case…
Descriptors: Proposal Writing, Nonprofit Organizations, Decision Making, Web Sites
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Poggiali, Jennifer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
This essay proposes that librarians practice ethical consumption when purchasing electronic devices. Though librarians have long been engaged with environmentalism and social justice, few have suggested that such issues as e-waste and sweatshop labor should impact our decisions to acquire e-readers, tablets, and other electronics. This article…
Descriptors: Ethics, Library Development, Librarian Attitudes, Purchasing
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Burri, Michael – BC TEAL Journal, 2017
Making sense of theory plays an essential role in the life of a doctoral student. This autoethnographic study explores how I made sense of educational theory while conceptualizing the theoretical framework for my PhD proposal. A diary that I kept while designing the proposal serves as the data source to examine how my thinking about theory…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Comprehension, Educational Theories
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Druliolle, Vincent – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
Simulations are traditionally divided into three phases, namely preparation, interaction, and debriefing. This article argues that the first phase has been neglected. The preparation phase is indeed widely seen as necessary but merely instrumental to the interaction phase of simulations rather than as a self-contained activity that may also…
Descriptors: Simulation, Active Learning, Policy Formation, Proposal Writing
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Stiles, Jennifer; McCulloch, Catherine – Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), 2019
The Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) offers advice on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education and a portrait of an early career researcher support program. The advice offered throughout the guide comes from experienced researchers who are part of the National Science Foundation's Discovery…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Research, Researchers, Research Skills
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Porter, Robert – Journal of Research Administration, 2017
This paper discusses the contrasting perspectives of academic prose versus grant writing, and lists strategies grant specialists can use to help researchers break old habits and replace them with techniques better suited to the world of competitive grant proposals. [This article is a reprint of "Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication, Proposal Writing
Alfakih, Ahmed Hassan – Online Submission, 2017
The study examined the impact of a training program on enhancing postgraduate students' research skills in preparing a research proposal. The nature of the skills required to prepare a research proposal were first determined using a questionnaire. A training program for improving such skills was then constructed and seven postgraduate students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Research, Research Skills
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Pescante-Malimas, Mary Ann; Samson, Sonrisa C. – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
This study identified and analyzed the common linguistic errors encountered by Linguistics, Literature, and Advertising Arts majors in their Thesis Proposal classes in the First Semester 2016-2017. The data were the drafts of the thesis proposals of the students from the three different programs. A total of 32 manuscripts were analyzed which was…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Proposal Writing, Theses, Student Writing Models
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Khabiri, Mona; Marashi, Hamid – TESOL Journal, 2016
Collaborative teaching is a dynamic process in which educators are continuously engaged in restrategizing to fit their curricular goal. This article aims to describe how the use of collaborative teaching in a course on proposal writing benefited a group of graduate students studying teaching English as a foreign language. Throughout the study, two…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Graduate Students, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
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Mulfinger, Lorraine M.; Dressler, Kevin A.; James, L. Eric; Page, Niki; Serrano, Eduardo; Vazquez, Jorge – Journal of Research Administration, 2016
Research administrator interest in large research proposal development and submission support is high, arguably in response to the bleak funding landscape for research and federal agency trends toward making more frequent larger awards. In response, a team from Penn State University and Huron Consulting Group initiated a baseline study to…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Research Universities, Higher Education, Research and Development
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Stiles, Jennifer; McCulloch, Catherine – Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), 2017
The Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) Early Career Guide offers advice on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education and a portrait of an early career researcher support program. The advice offered throughout the guide comes from experienced researchers who are part of the National Science…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Graduate Students
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