What is it? Technical writing is a style of writing linked to the documentation of processes, while academic writing is more specific in that it is linked to a particular discipline and found in scholarly articles and publications. Technical and academic writing differ from persuasive writing, but in the field of grant writing, you need a combination of all three. 

Scientific writing is a style of writing designed to present data and/or ideas with a level of detail that an audience of scientific or peer experts will understand. Like technical and academic writing, there are several kinds of writing consider scientific, including peer-reviewed journal articles, grant proposals, and literature review articles.

RFP Responses in the form of proposal development encompasses technical writing, scientific writing and if necessary academic writing.  These proposals are developed in the alignment to the funding mechanism and as part of a collaborative effort. Proposal language is derived from multiple resources including the project team, project/program approach, costing, marketing and narrative descriptions, and ER works with various team members to help align and extract the overall storytelling.

While you must be able to clearly articulate what you will be doing, you also must be able to technically articulate the intricacies. This can be quite an overwhelming task for many, especially when you are describing statistical processes and protocols. Conversely, you might be too technical in your writing and need to use more persuasive language.

Technical and academic writing take experience to do well. With a growing reputation for asking insightful questions, proposing collaborative and unique research designs, maintaining strong partnerships, and funded implementation and research grants, ER consultants gained institutional trust and increased responsibility. Our consultants can help you craft a compelling blend of technical, academic, and persuasive language for your program or project proposal.

ER can provide other potential, “as needed” services for your proposal:

• ER can perform qualitative and mixed methods research design, protocol development, data collection, and coding and analysis;
• ER can perform additional advanced analysis based on subsequent research questions;
• ER can create the ‘backbones’ of papers for submission which include the methods, results, figures, tables, and lay terms;
• ER has editors on staff that can format papers to specific required formats for submission;
• Develop internal recommendations for funding projects;
• Conduct needs assessment with beneficiaries and their communities;
• Create date visualizations for submissions or presentations;
• Evaluate new programs based on outcome data of previously existing programs;
• Collaborate with organizations to externally promote initiatives;
• Help to identify the fit of staff support for specific proposal projects or research task; and
• Help identify grants available to fund projects that may be beyond the scope of organization funding.