Unit 3: SURF Grant
Due Dates:
Feeder 3.1 Monday, April 9th
Feeder 3.2: Monday, April 16th
Unit Project: Monday, April 23rd
Unit Project: SURF Grant
Genre
Project Proposal |
Purpose
Apply to a summer research grant |
Audience
Awarding Committee |
Role
Undergraduate Student |
Rhetorical Situation
You want to expand on your research during the summer and want to apply to a SURF grant. |
Feeder 3.1: Project Goals and Preliminary work
Provide a statement of your research question(s) or a description of what you intend to create, invent or discover. Suggested length: 150 words.
Briefly summarize any preliminary work accomplished for your project and/or the course work and other experience you have had that demonstrates your capacity to complete your project successfully. Suggested length: 150 words.
Feeder 3.2: Project Background/Significance and Methods
Clearly explain the potential importance of your research project, your performance or creation, or your invention. In addition, explain the theoretical or critical frameworks you will use to guide your research or the development of your performance or creation. Include appropriate citations. Suggested length: 400 words.
Describe the steps you will take to complete your project and explain why each step is necessary. Methods differ from project to project. They may include conducting laboratory experiments, fielding surveys, interviewing key informants, analyzing critical texts or artifacts, viewing related performances, or traveling to specific field locations or archives. Include a brief timeline for completing your project during the summer. Suggested length: 400 words.
Unit Project: Project Proposal
Format requirements:
- Your proposal should be double-spaced and written in 12-point font.
- Please put the title of your application on the first page of your written statement, and include your name and PID number on each page. Do NOT include a cover page, appendix materials, separate CV, budget, or any other additional application materials.
- Your letter of recommendation must be sent separately directly from your faculty advisor. Do not include it in the proposal pdf.
- Sections (1) through (6) must total no more than 1200 words, and you may not include more than 3 figures/tables/images.
- Name your proposal in following the format “LastnameFirstnameSURFYearProposal,” where Lastname and Firstname reflect your name, and year is the current calendar year with four digits (i.e., 2017). Example: GarciaMarySURF2017Proposal.pdf.
- Submit your proposal as a .pdf and email it to our@unc.edu with the subject line “SURF Proposal Submission.”
With clearly labeled headings, please include the following in the written proposal. The suggested word lengths below are general guidelines, but these may differ by discipline.
- Project Goal(s) or Aim(s): Provide a statement of your research question(s) or a description of what you intend to create, invent or discover. Suggested length: 150 words.
- Project Background and Significance: Clearly explain the potential importance of your research project, your performance or creation, or your invention. In addition, explain the theoretical or critical frameworks you will use to guide your research or the development of your performance or creation. Include appropriate citations as directed in (8) below. Suggested length: 400 words.
- Methods: Describe the steps you will take to complete your project and explain why each step is necessary. Methods differ from project to project. They may include conducting laboratory experiments, fielding surveys, interviewing key informants, analyzing critical texts or artifacts, viewing related performances, or traveling to specific field locations or archives. Include a brief timeline for completing your project during the summer. While students may continue their projects after the end of the summer, the research funded by the SURF must be completed by the start of the Fall semester. Suggested length: 400 words.
- Preliminary Work and Experience: Briefly summarize any preliminary work accomplished for your project and/or the course work and other experience you have had that demonstrates your capacity to complete your project successfully. Suggested length: 150 words.
- Final Products and Dissemination Plan: Indicate what the resulting product of your research will be and how this product will be disseminated or shared with others. Examples of final products include a paper submitted for publication, a conference presentation, a software application, a web site, or a performance or other event. Suggested length: 75 words.
- IRB/IACUC statement: Please indicate whether your proposal requires IRB or IACUC approval.Most research involving contact with human subjects (i.e., interviews or surveys) requires IRB approval. Most research involving animal subjects must be approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). For more information about IRB requirements, please visit the IRB guide for students and faculty. For more information about research involving animal subjects, please visit the IACUC webpage.This statement is required for all proposals; if your project does not require IRB approval you must state that explicitly.
- Word Count: At the end of section (6), please include a word count of sections (1) through (6). List it as “Total word count: ##”. Sections (1) through (6) must total less than 1200 words.
- References: Provide a list of the references you cited in your proposal. References are not included in the 1200 word limit. You can use whatever citation style is standard in your discipline.
- Figures and Tables: Figures and tables are not required as part of your written proposal. However, if you choose to include figures or tables, please number them sequentially and refer to them in the text by the appropriate number (e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2, etc). Place these after the references. Do not embed figures and tables in the body of the proposal (i.e. sections 1-5). Do not include more than a combined total of 3 figures and tables. Figures and tables are not included in the word limit.
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