My Technical and Grant Writing Blog

Watched a Webinar today
Over at http://www.foundationcenter.org/ they have free Webinars relating to Grants and Proposal writing aimed at getting funding from Foundations. With that focus, it makes it easy to know what you are getting. What I liked about the one I did today was Basic Grant Proposals.

One thing that really stuck with me is the emphasis on organization.
Shows me that my recent love affair with Tables of Contents is a good thing.

Starting a document.
The steps I take are pretty simple, yet they allow me to be organized from the beginning.
I work mostly in Word, so that is how this is laid out.

Cover or Title page
Page of Revisions
Then my Table of Contents page
Insert a Table of Contents, even with nothing else indicated as a Header
Then a Table of Figures, A List of Tables, then I am ready to start.

Next step is the anticipated main elements to the document, this of course depends on what I am writing.
I add a few lines between each.
Indicate each as a Heading 1, and update my Table of Contents.

There I have a framework to work in, a short and sweet, takes minutes, sense of organization.