Agreed with all of this. Don't read your proposal again until much later (either turning it into a paper if you had preliminary data, or when you get your reviews back). Minor typos don't impact my review, and I've had a proposal funded that had something along the lines of "{cite Smith's work here}" (which made me laugh out loud when I re-read the proposal upon getting the money and trying to remember what I promised to do :). The science is more important than the editing.
Also, in my field, proposals have less than a 20% hit rate. Why try to make it flawless if it doesn't matter and only a handful of people will ever read it? Spend the time on your papers and coming up with really good research ideas.
Agreed with all of this. Don't read your proposal again until much later (either turning it into a paper if you had preliminary data, or when you get your reviews back). Minor typos don't impact my review, and I've had a proposal funded that had something along the lines of "{cite Smith's work here}" (which made me laugh out loud when I re-read the proposal upon getting the money and trying to remember what I promised to do :). The science is more important than the editing.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in my field, proposals have less than a 20% hit rate. Why try to make it flawless if it doesn't matter and only a handful of people will ever read it? Spend the time on your papers and coming up with really good research ideas.