A Transacting I Plop or A Satanic Glint Prop or just plain Grant applications

I am knee deep in grant applications for both projects that I’m crazy enough to pursue this summer. One is an internal library grant, but the other is a grant that is largely pursued by non-faculty members (i.e. professors). You can tell the grant is designed for the teaching/research professors. The application process is more stringent than for the library research grant. I need to fill out protocol forms, design informed consent forms for ethics approval and have an external referee who is knowledgable in the field on top of the research proposal. I also need an endorsement from my department’s Chair (which doesn’t exist in the library). I’ve got 4 days to complete one of the research proposals and I am sweating bullets. However, I’m finding the “Writing the Research Proposal” chapter of Ronald R. Powell’s Basic Research Methods for Librarians particularly useful.