After a draft of the grant application has been written and, if possible, laid aside for period of time, it can then be reconsidered and then revised for content and language. Questioning whether the arrangement of the grant application is effective requires going back to the researcher's working outline and asking if the finished product follows it. Also, the researcher may want to reconsider if there is indeed a good reason for having sections of information grouped the way they are. As researchers become more proficient at organization, they recognize that the arrangement of their applications greatly determines their effectiveness. Nothing is more unconvincing as an overly generalized, under-supported assertion.
Assearch situations change, so often does the degree of development and support.
However, given the fact that researcher must work within a 20-page limit, a balance must be achieved between the excessive and convincing amounts of detail. Unity and coherence are two characteristics of clear, effective grant applications. First, a written work is unified when all of the discussion and details contained in the document relate to a central argument or thesis. Material that is not unified strays from the point and does not support the purpose. Second, the ideas, concepts, and facts that are presented within a grant application have to stick together.