Writing Tips
- Read the sponsor guidelines
- Do your homework
- Outline/draft your project concepts
- Reflect your enthusiasm and commitment
- Review your outline/draft with colleagues
- Revise the draft
- Cut the jargon
- Double check your language, grammar, style and logic
- Be clear, concise, consistent and readable
- Check for transition and continuity
- Define abbreviations and acronyms
- Include appendices for statistical detail, drawings, and charts as may be necessary
- Ensure good physical appearance on final copy-clean type, margins, etc.
- Do not rely on the sophistication of the reviewers to read into what is not in your proposal
Contact Information
Office: Kehoe Administration Building, Room 815
Phone: (518) 564-2155
Fax: (518) 564-2157
Kehoe 815
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
