• Writing for Success, SERCC Staff (PDF available on request: Contact us)
• Achieving Clarity in Writing, SERCC Staff (PDF available on request: Contact us)
• Writing as a Team – Editing Each Other's Work, SERCC Staff (PDF | Recording)
• How to Write an Effective Personal Statement, SERCC Staff (PDF)

• Chatbots in Science
• Chatbots in Teaching
• AI - General

Sources for Example Proposals

• UI Research Development Office (RDO) Proposal Library (HawkID required)
  • Graduate Student Proposals
    • Includes examples of funded proposals for NIH NRSA, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and others
    • From the Grant Writing Resources folder, click on Sample Proposals and Supporting Documents and then Graduate Student Proposals
  • Career Development (K) awards
    • The following K awards can be found in the indicated subfolders
      • K01 – NHLBI subfolder, funded | NIA subfolder, funded
      • K08 – NIDCR subfolder, funded
      • K22 – NCI subfolder, funded | NIAID subfolder, funded 
      • K99 – NHLBI subfolder, funded | NIAID subfolder, funded | NIAMS subfolder, not funded
    • From the Grant Writing Resources folder, click on Sample Proposals and Supporting Documents and then NIH Proposals; navigate to the institute to identify one of the examples listed above.
    • Note: K awards differ from fellowships in that they are geared toward individuals who are further along in their training (e.g., postdocs and fellows), but they are similar in that they emphasize training as well as research.
• UI Graduate Student Professional Development Resources: Sample Fellowship Applications (HawkID required)
• NIAID website (scroll down the page to get to the training grants).
• OpenGrants: Grants by Program. 
• NSF Fellowship Examples (advice and examples collated by Alex Lang)
• NIH RePORTER 
  • Search for fellowship proposals that were recently awarded to trainees at the University of Iowa. 
  • Once you identify some funded applications, you could reach out and explain that you are looking for examples and ask if they would be willing to share the proposal with you. 

Offices and Centers that Provide Support for Scientific Writing 

• Scientific Editing and Research Communication Core (SERCC) 
  • SERCC Editing Services
  • SERCC Resources
  • SERCC newsletter archive 
• UI Graduate College Grad Success Center: Fellowship and Grant Support 
• The Writing Center (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) 
• Hansen Center for Communication (College of Engineering) 

• Graduate College: Grad Success Center
• Office of Faculty Affairs: Promotion and Tenure Information & College of Medicine CV Format

• "The Science of Scientific Writing," Gopen & Swan, American Scientist, 1990
• "Data Visualization: A view of every Points of View column" (Presenting data effectively/good graphics), Nature Methods
• "Plain-language Summaries: How to Write an eLife Digest," eLife
• "The 1-hour workday," Science

• Style: Toward Clarity & Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing), Joseph M. Williams, The University of Chicago Press, 1995
• The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person’s guide to Writing in the 21^st Century, Steven Pinker, Penguin Books, 2014

• Written Communication, Video Series, Northwestern University, CLIMB Program (Collaborative Learning and Integrated Mentoring in the Biosciences)

• "Breaking into the Conversation: How Students Can Acquire Authority for Their Writing," Mark Gaipa, Pedagogy, Fall 2004, The Muse  
• "20 Acclaimed Authors and Their Unique Writing Rituals," MastersDegree.net, Jan. 20, 2011
• "Who, What, When, and Where of Writing Rituals," Kathleen O’Shaughnessy, Connie McDonald, Harriet Maher, Anne Dobie, The Quarterly, National Writing Project, Fall 2002

• The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, Allyn and Bacon, 1999
• Eats, shoots & leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation, Lynne Truss, Gotham Books, 2004
• Grammar Troublespots: A Guide for Student Writers, Anne Reimes, Cambridge University Press, 2004