AI for Grant Writing
A curated list of resources for using AI to develop more competitive grant applications.
Useful Services
| Checks Spelling and Grammar | Text Generation | Translation | Mock Review | Image Generation | Free Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Gemini | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Grok | x | x | x | x | ||
| Copilot | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Grammarly | x | x | x | x | ||
| Grantable | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Curie | x | x | ||||
| DeepL | x | x | ||||
| Midjourney | x | |||||
| Firefly | x | x | ||||
| Proposia | x | x | x |
Prompt Resources
Prompt Collections
Prompt Engineering
- Google's Tips to enhance your prompt-engineering abilities
- Best practices for prompt engineering with OpenAI API
- Awesome GPT Prompt Engineering
Quick Prompts
To enhance text clarity
As a non-native English speaker, kindly help me revise the following text for improved understanding
and clarity. Please check for spelling and sentence structure errors and suggest alternatives.
What suggestions do you have to enhance the clarity of my text?
Please identify any parts of my writing that may be difficult for a lay audience to understand.
To make text more compelling
Please provide feedback on my writing style and how I can make it more persuasive and compelling
for the grant reviewer.
I’m trying to hook my reader with a strong introduction. Can you suggest a more captivating first
sentence to draw them in from the start?
To improve structure and flow of text
I want to improve the overall structure of my Specific Aims. What tips do you have to structure it
more effectively?
Can you recommend an effective way to organize my Significance section to highlight the innovative
aspects of our approach?
Please provide detailed feedback on the flow and sequence of my research strategy
To better align with the funding agency’s mission
I’m working on a postdoctoral fellowship application. Can you please review my closing paragraph
and suggest ways to better align it with the American Heart Association’s mission?
How can I better align my proposal to specifically address the outlined in
this funding announcement for ?
To better align text with review criteria
I am applying to . Please provide me feedback on how well I am
addressing this review criteria: , and suggestions for what I am
missing and how I can improve.
To develop a strong grant title
Suggest five potential titles for a grant proposal that will attract readers while encompassing the
research question and key elements from the provided abstract
To identify challenges of the proposed aims
Help identify potential challenges that may arise with my proposed aims and suggest strategies to
address them
What are some potential questions or concerns that
To develop a timeline for the grant proposal
Assist in developing a detailed project timeline and milestones for my grant proposal to demonstrate
feasibility using my project summary and specific aims
Please develop a feasible project timeline for my grant proposal relating to my career development
plan using this list of activities for starting in
Grant Writing-Specific Resources
- Ten simple rules to leverage large language models for getting grants
- Best Kept Secrets to Winning Grants
- The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page
- R01 Countdown: Tools for Writing Concise and Compelling Grants
- On the Art of Writing Proposals
- Grant Writing Basics
- Tips for Planning Your Proposal
- NIH Grant Writing Tip Sheets
- National Science Foundation’s Guide for Proposal Writing
- Grant Proposals (or Give Me The Money!)
- To Grant You An Edge: General Strategies For Writing Competitive Biomedical Research Proposals
Contributing
We encourage and welcome contributions! Please have a look at the contribution guidelines first.