| − | '''Lab 1:''' Due in class Thursday, September 5, 2019. For this assignment, you are going to write a proposal (letter of intent, actually) to a hypothetical funding agency that gives grants for undergraduate research. Writing a grant proposal can be a huge undertaking involving an intense effort over a number of weeks. However, sometimes a grant making institution will first ask for a letter of intent, often less than a page, to weed out potential applicants, and save a lot of effort. Successful applicants at this stage will be invited to prepare a longer proposal. A letter of intent can take less than an afternoon to write, and I don't expect this assignment will take much longer for you.
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| − | It is important that a letter of intent be presented in a professional manner. It should be formatted as a letter, and have proper grammar and spelling. Before submitting such a letter you would want to have a classmate or friend look over your document---even if English is your first language, but especially if it is not. The creative content of the letter should be each student's own for this assignment (it is OK to talk to others though). That said, in the real world, letters lacking professionalism would not even be considered for creative content---I will grade the assignment similarly. Specifically, if your presentation is poor, you will be graded only on your presentation, just like in the real world.
| + | * [[Data_Analysis_Grant_Lab|First Lab: Letter of Intent For a Data Analysis Grant, Due September 5]] |
| − | Suggested topics for data search: (actually, whatever interests you): sports (of various kinds, there are lots of free good data on baseball), entertainment, movies (again good data), law, criminology, government, city planning, architecture, weather, climate, geology, seismology, medicine, epidemiology, health, fitness, biology, evolution, extinction, ecology, math, computer science, statistics, data science, anthropology, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, sociology, culture, tourism, archeology, art, literature, writing, journalism, census, linguistics, finance, economics, business, astronomy, physics, chemistry, library sciences, theology, and anything else you can think of.
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