Proposal Review
Proposal Critique & Feedback
What is it? A proposal critique is a critical review of your proposal with feedback ranging from initial opinions to a deep dive into conceptual links. Feedback can come in the form of comments and suggestions to in-text editing whether substantial or minimal.
As the adage goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If no other service is used, consider a proposal critique. While you may only be able to send the narrative for review (and that is okay), our consultants have a keen eye to assess how close it is to submission status and the elements needed to strengthen the proposals. In instances where authors did not heed our proposal critique and feedback and submitted without those changes, the comments received from the review panel and Program Officers mirror our original feedback. We understand that receiving critique of your work is difficult, however it is better to receive that feedback before you submit to help you strengthen your proposal than to go unreviewed and (thus) unfunded. Our consultants can provide the critical proposal critique and feedback that you need to ensure your proposal is as competitive as it can be.
How can we help you?
- Identify content discrepancies
- Assess each section of the narrative, with special emphasis on the:
- Significance, Intellectual Merit, and Broader Impacts
- Appropriateness of the identified research questions
- Specific aims or goals, objectives, and outcomes, and their interplay with selected activities
- Research and programmatic design
- Evaluation plan
- Logic model
- Review against funder selection or review criteria
- Review proposal for funder requirements
- Create a meta-narrative throughout
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Read MoreFAQ About Proposal Critique & Feedback
The key to a strong logic model is the visual display of linkages, so text narrative should not replace the graphic. Strong proposals do provide a written description of logic model text in its narrative.
Generally, the logic model is one-page in length, which is why they can be tricky to do. Some funders do require double-spacing for all text, graphics included, which would make your logic model two pages.
Funders will often specify where to put them. If this is not provided, consider putting your logic model in the Project Design or Evaluation sections. Regardless, you will want to refer to it throughout your proposal.
Logic models must succinctly articulate your program or research efforts in no more than 1 page. Distilling your content, in logic and text, proves a lengthy task.
Both objectives and specific aims are the specific statements to outline key steps and to define outcome measures in order to achieve overall goal or purpose. Different funding agencies or Unviersity guidance may have their own terminolofy requirement when writing a proposal. Therefore, objectives and specific aim terms sometimes could be interchangeable.
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