By CARMEN DURLAN
BYU students and full-time faculty and staff can learn how to write proposals to obtain grants for degree projects and research by taking a class sponsored by the Instructional Technology Center starting Friday.
Lorie Davis, an instructional designer at ITC who specializes in technical writing, will be teaching the class, which will be held for four consecutive Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 1057 TMCB.
Enrollment is limited to 20 people. For more information and registration, call Bill Kelly at ext. 8-7090 or John Mace, ext. 8-5365.
All participants will finish the course with a written proposal. Those who enroll without a proposal idea will write a mock proposal.
Davis will be using proposal-writing software invented by the computer programmers at ITC to help teach participants. The cross-platformed software is designed to help speed and streamline the writing process, she said.
This software serves as both a pre-assessment and format for writing grant proposals, said Dr. Curtis Fawson, director of the ITC. “Every funding agency has a different format for their grant application. The software will help format your document to meet the specifications of any grant agency.”
Those enrolled will be given the software as part of the course. In the future, after the bugs are worked out, the software will be available for public purchase, Fawson said.
The workshop can be taken for three hours of graduate in-service credit for $375 and $330 for non-credit. BYU full-time faculty and staff may take the workshop at no charge through their benefit plan.
Davis said the workshop is being offered because many students and professors have asked for help in the past in writing proposals. It will be offered in the fall and, depending on demand, in the summer also.
