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which you’d otherwise not have access. The second reality is the flip side of the first: grants are received at the expense of some other investigator. Grant proposals that you write must not only be good ideas skillfully proposed, but must be superior to others being simultaneously considered. Grant offerings are a call to compete. Someone will win and someone will lose. It is not necessary, nor is it likely, to win every time. It is necessary to win often enough to accomplish the work one has planned. BASICS OF SCIENTIFIC GRANT WRITING John G. Younger, MD, MS EMERGENCY CARE RESEARCH – A PRIMER CHAPTER 8 42 CHAPTER 8 — BASICS OF SCIENTIFIC GRANT WRITING Much of the objective success of your research career will proceed from your ability to acquire and intelligently spend grant funding. The rest of this chapter is meant to introduce you to the most basic features of grantsmanship and it is hoped that with this discussion will come funding success for your work. However, before going any further three points should be emphasized. First, this chapter will not discuss the design of scientific work (e.g., hypothesis generation, measurement methods, statistical analysis). Learning how to do science is distinct from learning how to write grant proposals. Second, for grant writers needing to learn what constitutes a strong proposal, there is no substitute to having access to other individuals’ successful and unsuccessful grants.