Consultation and Writing Services

Free consultation and writing services are available to all GVSU College of Computing faculty through a third-party consulting company. All interested faculty should plan ahead and prepare for enough time for these services to be completed prior to their submission deadline. For more information and minimum time requirements, please review the service descriptions below and then make a request.

Please note these services are intended to strengthen research proposals and documents but they are NOT a replacement for the Proposal Services & required proposal approval process through the Pre-Award Administration in the GVSU Office of Research.

The reviewer will provide feedback on the content of the proposal with a focus on the alignment with the funding opportunity and the funder’s priorities. The review is designed to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas requiring improvement or clarification.  While it is the goal to identify a reviewer with subject matter expertise and agency experience, this may not be possible and should be considered before requesting the service.  For best results, it is recommended (but not required) that the PI submits the full proposal package for review. All proposal documents MUST be in Word format.

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Early Career Research

Education Research & Programs

Interdisciplinary Research

STEM Education

Student Success

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Proposal Content Review (6-week notice)

A review will require at least 6 weeks notice and typically takes about 5 business days to complete. Please take into consideration service process time, holidays, weekends and the internal submission deadline when planning and requesting a review and a service start date. A sample timeline for this service would be:

• 6+ Weeks Prior to Submission Deadline: Complete the service request form on our website & commit to a specific date to send your proposal documents for review. You will NOT be asked to submit any proposal components at this point; all that is required is a commitment to submit your draft on a later date.
• Within 1-2 Business Days: A staff member will confirm your request received and provide further instructions.
• Within 2 Weeks: An expert reviewer search and confirmation.
• Next 2+ Weeks: The remaining time before the service should be spent preparing your proposal draft and saving it as one or a few WORD files 
• Date of Service (date the PI submits the proposal draft for review), recommended 10 days prior to Internal Submission Deadline: Send your proposal documents by noon on the date you committed to in your request form; any delay in sending your documents on the committed date may result in a significant delay of completion of the service or its cancelation.
• Within 5 Business Days: Review is returned via email or Dropbox. All recommendations for changes to the proposal are OPTIONAL. It is up to the PI to decide which ones to incorporate.
• Remaining time before submission deadline should be used to incorporate reviewer feedback, finalize documents with the Pre-Award Administration staff & finalize the submission.

You will be asked to answer the following questions when requesting a review service:

1. What is the agency or funder?  
2. Please provide the link to the specific funding opportunity that the proposal is responding to.
3. What is the application deadline? NOTE: Internal deadline is 6-8 business days prior to submission deadline, the specific date must be confirmed with your assigned proposal specialist.