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Writing the one-page Specific Aims — the grant's elevator pitch, structure, and the mistakes that lose reviewers in 30 seconds.

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## Overview

The Specific Aims page is the most important page of a grant: reviewers
form their impression here, and many never fully recover from a
confusing one. This skill covers the canonical structure (hook, gap,
central hypothesis, aims with working hypotheses, impact), writing aims
that are ambitious yet feasible, and the editing that fits it all on one
page without sacrificing clarity.

## When to use

- Writing an NIH R01-style Specific Aims page (or equivalent one-page summary)
- Restructuring aims that reviewers called "diffuse", "overambitious", or "descriptive"
- Deciding how many aims and how independent they should be
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