This book is a guide to writing scientific research proposalsfor submission to funding agencies. It approaches the topic byplacing it in the larger context of planning and carrying out aresearch project, offering guidance on selecting a suitableresearch topic, organizing and planning the project, identifying afunding agency, writing the proposal, and managing the fundedproject. The book also discusses the ethical responsibilities ofthe researcher, the proposal review process, and how to deal withdeclination of a proposal. The author's 25 years of experience asan NSF program officer lend the book a unique insider's perspectiveon the proposal writing and research funding process. Because ofthat experience, the author is able to anticipate and answer thequestions that researchers most frequently ask when preparing towrite a proposal, and also to explain how program officers thinkabout proposals when they are making funding decisions.
Designed to be the essential reference works for all readersand students, these volumes present the most thorough analysispossible of Tolkien's work within the important context of hislife. The Reader's Guide includes brief but comprehensivealphabetical entries on a wide range of topics, including a who'swho of important persons, a guide to places and institutions,details concerning Tolkien's source material, information about thepolitical and social upheavals through which the author lived, theimportance of his social circle, his service as an infantryman inWorld War I -- even information on the critical reaction to hiswork and the "Tolkien cult." The Chronology details the parallelevolutions of Tolkien's works and his academic and personal life inminute detail. Spanning the entirety of his long life includingnearly sixty years of active labor on his Middle-earth creations,and drawing on such contemporary sources as school records, warservice files, biographies, correspondence, the letters of hisclose frien
