Watch the University of Florida-recorded Secrets of a $1B Grant-Writing Consultant: Roadmap to Funding Success Zoom lecture series led by nationally renowned proposal consultant, Donn Forbes. These sessions revealed the strategic techniques behind winning some of the nation’s most competitive research awards and provided insight valuable to scholars across all disciplines and career tracks. To watch the recorded lectures, please visit this UF Strategic Research Development link.
Additionally, Donn Forbes shared a list of the books he referenced in his lecture series. The complete list is as follows:
Donn Forbes’ Books Cited List
Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Carnegie, Dale, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Ephron, Hallie, The Everything Guide to Writing Your First Novel
Field, Syd, Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
George, Elizabeth, Write Away: One Writer’s Approach to the Novel
Greene, Anne A., Writing Science in Plain English
King, Stephen, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Luna, Rafael, The Art of Scientific Storytelling
National Research Council, Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science
NASEM, The Science and Practice of Team Science
NSF, The 2010 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation
Olson, Randy, Houston, We Have a Narrative
Pinker, Steven, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Schimel, Joshua, Writing Science
Stokes, Donald, Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation
Strunk, W., and White, E.B. The Elements of Style
Sword, Helen, Stylish Academic Writing
Vogler, Christopher, The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
Watson, James D., Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
Wilber, Ken, A Theory of Everything
Wilber, Ken, A Brief History of Everything
Wilson, Edmund O., Letters to a Young Scientist
Zinsser, William, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Zinsser, William, Writing to Learn