The Office of Faculty Affairs and the Advancing Research through Mentorship (ARM) Program have teamed up with Karl Keller, principal at Communication Partners, to provide a five-session technical and scientific writing workshop designed to equip you with the tools, strategies, and confidence to craft compelling grant proposals that stand out.

This interactive workshop will demystify the grant writing process, offering practical guidance on: 

• Structuring a persuasive and polished proposal
• Avoiding common mistakes that derail applications 
• Communicating your science with clarity and impact

This writing workshop is designed for active participation. Sessions will not be recorded. Attendance at all five sessions is essential to fully benefit from this experience.

REQUIREMENTS

A draft document, ideally a grant submission or resubmission in progress is required for all sessions. The expectation is that participants will work on drafts between sessions and provide updated drafts of writing each week.

This is an interactive writing workshop. As a participant, you will do peer review, writing, editing, and will share your writing with fellow attendees. You will learn to be a better writer by writing and revising your own material.

SESSIONS

1. Tuesday, December 9:  The Rhetorical Patterns of an Aims Page 
2. Tuesday, December 16:  The Logic Flow of Aims
3. Tuesday, January 6: Live Edit
4. Tuesday, January 13: The ‘’Ladder of Abstraction” and Eight Principles for Effective Writing
5. Tuesday, January 20: Titles, the “Big Structure,” and NIH Criteria 

All sessions will be conducted via Zoom

REGISTRATION

Registration will be limited to 16 participants with priority given to grant submissions planned for Feb/Mar 2026. For further details, please reach out to the Advancing Research through Mentorship Program (ARM) at researchmentoring@utmb.edu.

Click here for more information and to register: Registration