Paragraph 1: What are the key points of your introduction?
- Include (in outline form):
- Thesis statement, topic sentences, and important sub-points.
- Describe the species that your research aims to address.
- Describe your study and the experimental plan.
- This is the most important part of your grant. Think carefully about the study designs you learned about in this lab.
- Make sure that the study design can properly test your hypothesis.
- Choose the types of data that you will need. Tests/metrics/information that fit within your study design must be described.
- Explain how you plan to collect your data.
- Describe the hypothesis for your proposal and why you expect it to succeed.
- State your hypothesis (Ha)
- Describe how you will test your hypothesis.
- What type of data will you collect?
- What will be your independent variable?
- What will be your dependent variable(s)?
- What is your control?
- Describe what type(s) of statistical tests you expect you may need to utilize.
- How will you work within your budget (less than $200,000 USD) and a time period of two years? Including a brief timeline of your experiment would help here.
- Indicate in 1-2 sentences the essence of your idea. Try to be both creative and practical.
- Why should we care about this species and your experiment?
- Describe why this idea is unconventional/creative/a practical approach to the question you are trying to understand.
- This will make your idea fundable.
- What essential data will you generate? If your experiments are successful, what would be the next steps?
- You must include ecological concepts in this paragraph.
Paragraph 2: How will you test your hypothesis?
Paragraph 3: How will your research idea aid this species or the environment?
This should be about one page in length and should be completed in a blank Word document.
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