This lecture provide information related how to write grant summery proposal.

1. Writing Grant Proposal
Summary /Abstract
PreparedBy:
Qrousha Yahya
Fatmah al riashidi
Abrar Abdulaziz
UnderSupervision: Prof. Gehan Mohamed Mostafa

2. Goal:
To Empower our participants
with knowledge, skills and
positive attitude toward Writing
Grant Proposal Summary.

3. Objective:
At the end of this unit, the students should
be able to:
 Explain the nature of abstract.
 Define The executive summary / abstract.
 Identify and explain the aim of abstracting.
 List Qualities of an Abstract.
 List type of grants & Abstract.
 Mention Characteristic of Grant Abstracts.
 List elements to avoid in abstract.
 Mention how to trim the abstract wording.

4. Outline:
 Definition.
 Nature of Abstracts.
 Aims of abstract.
 Qualities of an Abstract.
 When to write abstract.
 Type of grants summary & Abstracts.
 Characteristic of Grant Abstracts.
 Avoid in Grant Abstracts.
 Trim Your Sentences.

5. Introduction:
the importance of the abstract in a
grant proposal. Although it is usually
the first section, it is typically the last to
be written. The abstract is often the
most crucial part of a grant, especially
for corporate and private foundations.
Grants officers frequently focus on this
section. It's essential to engage the

6. Grant proposals : are organized into distinct sections. The
executive summary is often the most important section
because it's the first thing reviewers will read, just like an
abstract is often what readers read first when searching for
useful research.
The executive summary — also called an abstract or project
summary — is a high-level, condensed synopsis of your proposal .
It summarizes the most important aspects of your proposal in an

7. Abstract

8. An abstract is a concise and potent statement summarizing a larger work. It aids in
deciding whether to study the complete document (Kallestinova, 2018). These
formal summaries, crafted by writers or abstractors, encapsulate the main points
using the original document's language and expertise.
Grant Reviewing is a Subjective Process :
Reviewers are never wrong; Reviewers are never right. T h e y simply
provide an assessment of material that provide in the application.

9. Nature of Abstracts:
•
An abstract offers a brief and precise overview of a
document's content. It serves as a stand-in for the original,
effectively encapsulating its key information. In some
cases, the abstract alone may suffice, eliminating the need
for the original document. This time-saving feature proves
especially valuable for users sifting through numerous
documents.

10. Aims of Grant Abstract:
1- Describes the project.
2- Shows the importance and
relevance of a research.
3- Is used as a guide to the document.
4- Is used to decide where to assign
the application.

11. Qualities of an Abstract:
1- Accuracy – free of errors.
2- Brevity – shorter than the original.
3- Clarity – absence of ambiguities.
4- Self-sufficiency- complete in itself and full
understandable to the reader without
reference to the original.

12. When to write
summary

13. When submitting articles to journals, especially online journals.
When applying for research grants.
When writing a book proposal.
When completing the Ph.D. dissertation or M.A. thesis.
When writing a proposal for a conference paper.
When writing a proposal for a book chapter.
Educational program development grants.
Quality improvement/clinical practice grants.

14. Types of Abstracts:
Descriptive abstracts:
A descriptive abstract outlines the content of a work,
offering no evaluations, results, or conclusions. It includes
key terms and may mention the research's purpose,
methods, and scope. Essentially, it serves as an outline of
the work rather than a summary, typically spanning 75-
150 words.
Background
Purpose
Interest / focus of paper Overview of contents

15. Informative Abstracts:
informative abstracts, also called complete
abstracts, encompass details from descriptive
ones (purpose, methods, scope) and add results,
conclusions, and author recommendations. They
typically range from 100 to 200 words.

16. Descriptive abstract Informative abstract
Describes the major points of the project to the
reader.
Includes the background, purpose and focus of the
paper or article, but never the methods, results and
conclusions, if it is a research paper.
Informs the audience of all essential points of the
paper. Briefly summarizes the background, purpose,
focus, methods, results, findings and conclusions of
the full-length paper.
Is concise, usually 10% of the original paper length,
often just one paragraph.
Is most likely used for humanities and social
science papers or psychology essays
Is most likely used for sciences, engineering or
psychology reports

17. What to avoid when
writing an executive
summary

18. Naturally, as there are best practices, there are things to avoid. These are the main ones when
writing your executive summary.
1- Don't address the funder directly.
2- Don't give out too much.
3- Don't write in the first person.
4- Don't give any confidential information.
5- Don't focus more on problems than the proposed solutions.

19. Characteristic of Grant
summary
Present an accurate description of the proposed wo
Be able to stand on its own (separate from the
application).
Be informative to other people working in the same o
related fields.
Be succinct and concise and limited to 30 lines of text

21. Trim Your Sentences
1. Avoid redundancies;
2. Avoid Useless and Emotional Intensifiers
3. Use simpler vocabulary;
4. Put action into your verb;
5. Trim your clauses or phrases;
6. Write shorter sentences

22. Application

23. 1) Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries is widely known to have an
impact on patients, their families and to the whole healthcare
system. According to recent literatures, the cost of individual
patient care per pressure injury may range from $20,900 to
$151,700. Accordingly in 2007, Medicare estimated that each
pressure injury added an additional $43,180 in costs to a hospital
stay of each patient.
The current access to treatment for all involved in patient
care appears inadequate. The study aims to evaluate the
effectiveness of the Regenerating agent in treating pressure
injuries. This assessment will involve monitoring the healing
progress, with potential significant implications for pressure
injury management.

24. • Take home message :
• Conclusion 1: DO NOT write the application for yourself Unless you are going to
fund it yourself. You MUST convince the entire review committee and the funding
agency the proposed research will be of high impact and feasible.
• Conclusion 2: Reviewers are never wrong ; Reviewers are never right: They simply
provide an assessment of material that you provided in your application. Don’t
Take the Criticism Personally.
• Conclusion 3: If you are revising the application the comments in the summary
statement only list some of the weaknesses …. not all of the weaknesses. When
you revise your application use the time as an opportunity to improve the entire
application.

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