Find MOMO (Momentum) & Manage Grant Writing Project

1. Find MOMO (Momentum) & Manage Grant WritingProject Joe Moxley, Professor of English University of South Florida http://joemoxley.org

2. Topics • Develop a File Management Strategy • Manage Revision and Editing • Use Writing Tools • Document Sharing (Word, SharePoint) • Use Bibliography Tools • Develop a Research Blog • Create a Writing Community

3. How Much Time Do You Need? • 3 months to write a proposal • NIH = 25 ss pages; NSF 15 pages; NEH • Allow 6 months to receive a decision • Allow 3 months to receive award (although your university may front you the money). • Allow for rejection/revision and submission to multiple funding agencies.

4. Establish Priorities and Act Accordingly Structuring your time without being tense helps writers find additional time to work and play. If you work with a sense of structured routine, with a present-orientation … with effective organization, and with persistence, you will be more likely to display higher self-esteem, better health, more optimism, and more efficient work habits. Without learning the language of time, you risk depression, psychological distress, anxiety, neuroticism, and physical symptoms of illness. (Robert Boice)

5. Write Daily > Benefits of Daily Writing 1 7 64

6. Date Hours Worked Number f Words Written Class of Writing Writing/ Research Activities Feelings about Day's Writing Goals/ Accomplishments People to Contact Research to Conduct Revising Goals 9/1/00 1 300 3 Writing Good Project goals part 1 9/2/00 1 339 3 Writing Good Project goals part 2 9/3/00 3 371 3 Writing Good Writing goals 9/4/00 3 317 3 Writing Good Using Outline/Tracking feature 9/5/00 1.5 366 2 Writing Good Review of PM Networks article 9/7/00 2 224 3 Revision Good Incorporate cmts to goals 9/8/00 3 224 3 Revision Good Finalize goal 9/9/00 2 319 3 Writing Good Analyze my project 9/10/00 1.9 358 3 Writing Good Discussing Chapter 4 9/11/00 2 269 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.1 9/14/00 1.5 331 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.2 Version 1 9/15/00 2 263 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.2 Version 2 9/16/00 3 311 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.2 Version 3 9/17/00 2 363 3 Writing Good Addressed Dr. Moxley's cmts 9/18/00 1.5 378 3 Writing Good Attempt at hypotheses 9/19/00 1 191 1 Writing Good Status on good writers 9/20/00 2 535 3 Writing Good Status on good writers cont' 9/21/00 2 394 3 Writing Good Hypothesis analysis 9/22/00 2 353 3 Writing Good Hypothesis analysis 9/23/00 2 449 3 Writing Good Hypothesis analysis 9/26/00 2 308 3 Writing Good Conference abstract 9/28/00 2.5 412 3 Writing Good Methodology analysis 9/29/00 2 260 3 Writing Good Article review 10/1/00 2 335 3 Writing Good Article summary 10/2/00 1.5 421 3 Writing Good First paragraph paraphrase 10/3/00 2 324 3 Rewrite Good Incorp Dr. M's cmts in Conf Abstract 10/5/00 2 377 3 Write Good Drafted para 4.3 10/6/00 1.5 381 3 Write Good Drafted para 4.4  10/7/00 1.5 266 3 Write Good Drafted para 4.5  10/8/00 1.5 312 3 Write   Good Drafted para 4.6  10/9/00 2 392 3 Write Good Prepared CV 10/10/00 1.5 250 2 Critique Good Rev Yue Shen's Prop 10/11/00 1.5 250 2 Critique Good Rev Tianbo Xu Prop 10/14/00 2.0 379 3 Write Good Draft Cover Ltr.  See first version 10/15/00 2.0 391 3 Write Good Draft Cover Ltr 10/17/00 1.5 250 2 Critique Good Rev Tianbo Xu's Cover ltr 10/19/00 3.0 367 3 Write Good Rev Networking the Network 10/20/00 3.0 569 3 Write Good Rev Networking the Network 10/21/00 2.0 367 2 Write Good Incorporate cmts on Education Article 10/22/00 20 372 3 Write Good First draft of Research Plan 10/23/00 Second draft of Research Plan Write Daily > Log Your Work

7. Inventing > Freewriting The positive force is the surprise of discovery. Writers are born at the moment they write what they do not expect . . . They are hooked because the act of writing that, in the past, had revealed their ignorance, now reveals that they know more than they had thought they knew. - Donald Murray.

8. Inventing > Looping Freewrite a draft. Re-read the draft and attempt to identify the "center of gravity"--the place where your content is most original.  Identify effective metaphors, images, sentences.  Circle the language that you find to be of value. Begin a second freewrite after rewriting the "center of gravity" at the top of the page.  As you draft again, repeat the language you find helpful from the first draft, using these passages as a creative point of departure.   Repeat the "looping" process as necessary.

9. Inventing > Think Visually Examples of Maps Using Visuals Clustering/Spider Maps Systems Concept Maps Time Line/Flowchart Maps Hierarchy Concept Maps Modeling/Theory Maps

10. Spider Maps

11. Spider Maps

12. Systems Maps

14. Revise Your Work • Revise Your Work at the Rhetorical Level

15. Edit Your Work • Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams. • Editing Strategies

16. Manage Revision and Editing • Don’t accept everything you hear. Ignore the cranks. Like bad drivers, there are too many cranks for you to police. • Be your own worst critic. No one will take your work as seriously as you do. • Don’t try to critique your work at the last minute.

17. Trying Again If and when you submit a second time, send a revised proposal and indicate that you took their advice, i.e.: “It was so rewarding to hear the panel appreciated this, and it was helpful to hear they were concerned about X, so we have …”

18. Understanding Writing>Playing the Believing Game

19. Use Writing Tools Wisely • Use software tools to facilitate collaboration: • MSFT Tutorial | BU Tutorial | Tools for Writers • SharePoint • Blogs • http://www.lessig.org/blog/ • http://markbernstein.org/ • PhDweblogs.net • Wikis: TeachingWiki, WritingWiki

20. Develop a Research Blog • http://markbernstein.org/ • PhDweblogs.net • http://www.lessig.org/blog/

21. Create a Writing Community • Meet regularly • (monthly, semi-monthly): • Face-to-face • Online • Blogging community.