Whenever you are applying for a grant, the first thing that you should go and see is what the terms of the call are that you are applying for. Read the instructions and go back and investigate which grants were called last year, just to have a general idea of what reviewers want. And also be very careful when drafting your application. And if you already have some preliminary data, you should speak about it...
Whenever you are applying for a grant, the first thing that you should go and see is what the terms of the call are that you are applying for. Read the instructions and go back and investigate which grants were called last year, just to have a general idea of what reviewers want. And also be very careful when drafting your application. And if you already have some preliminary data, you should speak about it. It’s also very, very important to go through the methods and to explain what’s the importance of your work for the real world, right? What are going to be its implications and how you’re going to disseminate your results. And I think you should always try to see if there’s someone else who can review what you have written before submitting your application. That’s really very important. Regarding the rejection of manuscripts, well, it’s good that at least it got to the review phase, right, that it wasn’t immediately rejected as a manuscript. And you just have to think that, well, you can be upset probably when you receive a rejection at first, but you just have to stay calm, go through all the critiques, and probably you’ll see that some of them are right. They’re just giving you some tips that can really improve your manuscript. So go through them, read them, and try your best to comply with them, and then just go over and do it again. So keep calm and carry on.
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