Workshop

Mini-workshop:

Writing a compelling "Broader Impacts" section of your research proposal

Most Federal funding agencies (the National Science Foundation among these) require that research proposals include a section on ``Broader Impacts’’.

In this 2-hour workshop we will:

• present the principles that should guide the exposition and delivery style of the Broader Impacts section;

• discuss content of the Broader Impacts section;

• read and critique a few samples of Broader Impacts (participants are welcome to share their own writings from old proposals);

• we will then split in small groups and re-write the Broader Impacts samples following the guiding principles;

• finally, we will read the new Broader-Impacts sections and do "before-and-after" comparisons with the originals.