The application outlines a work agenda that is unrealistic. The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. It is impossible for a muddy thinker to write good English. At its best, preparing a proposal is an exercise in collegiality. The collegial notion of proposal development is more visible among scientists than other members of the campus community.
Collaborative activity is at the heart of scientific research.
Connecting to colleagues in the process of proposal writing helps reinforce the activity as a scholarly activity. As you share your nascent idea, your plans for the future, you are making the same kind of internal, pre-proposal connections to your scholarly peers that you make when you submit the proposal for review. This is taking a risk, of course, and writing a proposal is evidence of the willingness to take a risk. Review panels, study sections, whatever they are called at NEH, NSF, Fulbright, or NIH are made up of your peers. They may not be made up of specialists in your specific area of expertise, but they will be from faculties from colleges and universities across the country.