Chapter 1. Revising for Conciseness and Simplicity
1.1 Section Title
The following passage is from a request for proposals published by the National Science Foundation. (Sentence numbers have been added here.) The questions below ask you to think about word choice as discussed in this chapter.
The text reads, “1. Grants.gov, part of the President’s Management Agenda to improve government services to the public, provides a single Government-wide portal for finding and applying for Federal grants online. 2. Proposals submitted via Grants.gov must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Application Guide, available through Grants.gov as well as on the NSF website at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf. 3. The Grants.gov Application Guide contains important information on: • General instructions for submission via Grants.gov, including the Grants.gov registration process and Grants.gov software requirements; • NSF-specific instructions for submission via Grants.gov, including creation of PDF files; • Grant application package instructions; • Required SF 424 (R & R ) forms and instructions; and • NSF-specific forms and instructions 4. Upon successful insertion of the Grants.gov submitted proposal in the NSF FastLane system, no further interaction with Grants.gov is required. 5. All further interaction is conducted via the NSF FastLane system. Information from National Science Foundation, 2008:www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappaguide/nsf08_1/gpg_1.jsp#A1”
