Good Money and Good Causes

It was interesting to see this application of writing explained because at this school in the science departments we are taught specifically how to write our own proposals so I never thought about institutions needing a professional writer to convince an organization to fund research. It was surprising to see that even a starting wage for the writer could be $20-$30 an hour. It did not seem like a lot of money at first but considering the following statements on the length of proposals and the constant editing and sending it to the PI and other parties involved in the grant proposal, it seems like the hours would quite easily stack up to a sizable quantity. At first sight I also thought that it would be a really boring job but Karina Stokes makes a really great point that it can be rewarding to assist in helping organizations get funding to help in medicine, education, and helping people in general to have better lives. I think that this sounds like an awesome opportunity to be involved in something great for the future and that it can even allow specialization. I am interested in medicine so I could chose to focus the majority of my grant writing for hospitals and medical research facilities. This article was also useful in the sense that it also provided useful lists of what to include in writing a proposal in an easy to follow bulleted format while describing it more in depth in the body of the article.