Defense Date

1-2-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Degree Name

Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media

First Advisor

Molly Scanlon, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Eric Mason, Ph.D.

Keywords

genre analysis, nonprofit grant proposals, grant proposals, move analysis, rhetorical moves, grant writing, professional writing, nonprofit writing

Abstract

To reveal how writers can craft effective nonprofit grant proposals the study examined proposal narratives for which the U.S. National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH) had awarded financial grants to nonprofit organizations. The study identified the rhetorical moves that the various proposal authors had made as steps toward persuading NEH to award grants.

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