I'm taking a writing intensive course for my major (microbiology) where we are supposed to learn how to write grant proposals and scientific papers. There's a big project due at the end of the term where we will have choosen some "environment" to take a sample of, we will have tested for bacteria and we will write a proposal. I think I'm going to do my reef tank but there are three questions that I need to be able to answer:
1. What is the question?/ proposal?
2. Why should the reader care?
3. How will the work/testing answer the question?
Basically, I need a reason to test my fish tank and that reason has to be good enough so that some corporation or big money-rich entity will fund my research. If anyone has any ideas or can point me to some website, or whatever, that would be appreciated.