Review from Last Week (25 mins 10:20-10:45)

Goals and Outcomes Presentation (35 mins 10:45-11:20)

This is the first section of your proposal¹
This will be the first thing that people read, so honestly its one of the most crucial sections of your proposal
It's the tablesetting for the rest of what you're going to talk about too. If you write something in your G&O, you better talk about it later
- Tell em what you're gonna tell em, tell em, tell em what you told em
So what goes into a G&O section?
- First Paragraph(s)
  - First sentence
    - RESEARCH GOAL!!!!
    - The first sentence you write is critically important and should explicitly say what you're going to do, no bs
    - 'The goal of this research is to ...'
    - Explain what you're trying to do, using absolutely no jargon
    - One to three sentences. Be concrete. You should be clear in the goal, specific enough to seem feasible, but not too too narrow.
  - Rest of paragraph based writing
    - Briefly cover other sections. How will you get to your goal, what will be done, and who will care?
    - This is basically an ad for your researcher. The reviewer of your proposal wants to know, if this project is approved and funded, what are they going to get.
      - What are they buying?
      - What is the product of your effort?
      - What will you achieve?

-" If we are successful, we will able to do the following:"

3-5 clear and concise capabilities.
What is a capability? It's what we'll be able to DO after the research is successful, that we cannot do now.
One liner about the capability - rest of language explaining a little bit
Good capabilities are clear, verifieable, and concise

Some MSE professors really love hypothesis
Similar to outcomes but instead of creating capabilites you're creating observable knowledge
By doing X thing we can introduce Y change in Z behavior
- Must be falsifiable and specific!
- Then explain more specifically how you would measure such a thing, and briefly! why that change is posisble given the literature.
  - You will talk more about this in SOTA and RA, so give a preview and not an expansive discussion

Clarity is Key - State exacty what you want to, with as little fluff as possible.
1. You are smart. You know a lot of words. But reading all of them is a lot of effort on the reader.
Your reader is lazy
1. Not a dig on professors because everyone here is working hard.
2. But reading takes effort, and ultimately good writing and a good GO section should be easy to read. The easier it is to read your writing, the more of your meaning will be absorbed by the reader
Tablesetting as a Narrative
1. Your GO should set up the rest of your proposal. Give the reader a preview and a sample of what you're going to talk about.
2. Set things up, and get your GO almost like a prologue.

Goal for next week
- Have a rough draft of your goals and outcomes (~1 page)
- Keep working on other sections as you can. Keep reading and outining!