This seminar is devoted to developing the effective grant writing skills essential to acquiring competitive funding from government agencies and private foundations. In it students will prepare a complete grant proposal to the agency of their choice. The seminar has three goals: The first step is to clarify your research project toward presenting it in the form of a proposal; the second is to help develop an understanding of grant proposals as process and genre; and third to practice writing and revising toward increasing your chances of obtaining funding. Writing a successful grant proposal is a blend of art and science. It requires content knowledge, writing proficiency, strong research skills, creativity, organizational ability, patience, and luck. It also requires developing the rhetorical and cognitive skills to craft a persuasive and memorable document unlike any other you have penned. The seminar is one of three core proseminars in the doctoral program in anthropology. Among these, grant writing alone is also open to non-anthropology students given the non-disciplinary skill set needed to produce a competitive funding proposal. Students will be expected to prepare a complete grant proposal to an agency of their choice. Students are required to have a well-developed project from and on which to work; however, students do not need to have settled on a definitive dissertation project in order to profit from the seminar.