In the current state of my preliminary analysis, I was hoping to structure it based on the standard IMRAD paper. I was thinking that using this set up would make my paper more accessible to people within the scientific discourse community for which I was writing. Given that grant proposals are something that most people within this discipline have written, or will have to write at some point, I was thinking that this analysis could work as a way to show them what the most valuable rhetorical techniques are to include in a proposal. In alignment with this, I was hoping that going through the process of analyzing multiple grant proposals would give myself invaluable insight into the genre for when I will eventually need to write one myself.
I made the decision to analyze grant proposals early on in the process, but exactly what within that genre flipped around a few times. I initially wanted to compare the rhetorical techniques between two grant proposals, one for new research and one for known, or previously done, research. This initially seemed difficult to do because it would involve the need to find specific grant proposals that fit this specification, so I switched my focus to comparing the techniques used between successful and failed proposals. While searching for two proposals that fit this second set of specifications, I quickly realized that, in fact, my original idea was easier to accomplish, and found two proposals that were written for the same grant, a year apart, one for a new project and one for a project continuation. Questions/Concerns:
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