Write a one-page specific aims page for a grant
Drafts a tight specific aims page that sells the problem, gap, hypothesis, aims, and payoff on a single page.
The prompt
Help me write a specific aims page (or one-page project summary) for a research grant.
Funder and mechanism: [e.g. "NIH R01", "NIH K award", "foundation pilot grant"]
Problem and its significance: [burden, cost, scale, with sources]
What is known and the critical gap: [DETAILS]
My central hypothesis or objective: [DETAILS]
Preliminary data: [KEY FINDINGS, or "none"]
Planned aims: [2-3 aims with approach for each]
Team and environment strengths: [DETAILS]
Expected outcomes and impact: [DETAILS]
Structure (must fit on one page, roughly 500 words):
1. Opening hook: the problem and why it matters now.
2. The gap: what is unknown and why it blocks progress.
3. Long-term goal, objective of this proposal, central hypothesis, and rationale (preliminary data).
4. Aims: each with a bold, active title, a short approach, and the expected outcome. Aims should be related but not dependent on each other succeeding.
5. Payoff: expected outcomes, innovation, and impact.
After drafting, review it as a busy study-section reviewer would: is the hypothesis testable, are aims independent, is the scope feasible for the budget and time, and is anything vague? Give 5 specific fixes. Mark statistics without a source I provided as [CITE].
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "NIH R01", "NIH K award", "foundation pilot grant"
- burden, cost, scale, with sources
- DETAILS
- KEY FINDINGS, or "none"
- CITE
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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