Overview
The Scientific Editing Service will help strengthen and clarify your grant applications by providing customized structural and content edits to meet the specific needs of your documents. Editing improves grant applications but does not guarantee funding.
The Scientific Editor can help:
- Correct grammatical and typographical errors
- Improve sentence structure, paragraph organization, and flow
- Strengthen the scientific significance and impact
- Refine the language
- Identify inconsistencies
- Reduce word count
Scientific Editing Services includes:
- Explanations of the issues identified in your paper, suggested changes and information on how you might be able to address them further.
- Insights into how readers, peer reviewers, and journal editors might view your paper.
- Strategic advice for improving your writing in the future.
There may be a waiting list during periods of high demand. When we begin working on your document, an initial edit takes on average two weeks. Early requests (> 2 weeks) enable sufficient time for iterative drafts (including editor feedback and your revision) for optimum development of your grant or manuscript
For planning, please contact us if you have long term plans for grant submissions and intend to ask for editorial assistance. We will check in with you closer to the grant submission window to finalize the review.
Prioritization:
Grant proposals with a deadline will generally have priority over documents without a deadline. Priority is given to applicants who are:
- Junior Faculty across ICTR partner schools, colleges, and institutions (Tenure and CHS track).
- ICTR KL2 Scholars, TL1 trainees, and students in the ICTR Clinical Investigation degree program
- Those with a record of previous engagement with ICTR programs and resources
NOTE: All junior investigators should be actively working with a mentor who has approved the draft.
Service Limits:
We are only available for editing assistance. We do not put grants on forms, create pdfs, insert graphics, upload to online submission sites, or write missing sections.
ICTR is funded by an NIH CTSA grant that must be acknowledged in all subsequent publications using our editing services and linked to accepted papers in PubMedCentral. Please reach out to the Scientific Editor for language.
