Eos' Blogging Realm

Overall, the structure of the grant proposal flows well.  It starts off with its intent, and each subsection heading stated in bold shows where new content/aspects of the proposal begin.  The proposal opens strong with its purpose and follows up well with detailed reasoning of why they're making this proposal and how it's going to fix the issue.  All the personal information of audience and the author's occupation are listed clearly on the title page, with further detailing of the author's background later in the proposal.  Further down into the proposal after the introduction statements and references, there's a clear outline of goals, the intended timeline for execution of this program, and how the budget would be distributed.  The proposal exudes confidence, with the author being very sure in what exactly will happen should they receive the grant - for good reason, since you should have confidence in what you're doing with regards to something like this.

  It was interesting writing this AE.  It was a good bit different from most of the writing I've done, especially for school, since I actually got to put a lot of my own voice and my own experiences in it without going "Aw crap, this isn't gonna fly".  A lot of it was written while chatting with a couple online friends while they played games and I worked, so through most of the writing process I got to feel like "Oh yeah, I am perpetuating exactly what I'm talking about here". I really enjoyed being able to talk about something that was really dear to me, even if it's something that's kind of simple (in my mind).  By having something that I was personally invested in, I was able to really push myself through while writing.  Conversely, I think the hardest part of this, and I'm honestly not sure I did it too well, was interweaving the academic research into the paper smoothly.  There's a bit of a jarring difference between the personal a...