Interesting website: A Guide for Proposal Writing (National Science Foundation). This page reviews the two NSF criteria for evaluation (intellectual merit and broader impacts) and emphasizes the need to plan before you write (gather background information, look at the program solicitation, think about the target audience, and build a coalition). you should also understand the review process. The advice about proposal writing stresses the need for organization, readability, and understandability. Category: Grant writing, Category: Interesting websites. This website was last verified on September 4, 2007. URL: www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf04016&org=NSF.