Writing research and training proposals is an essential skill to master not only for obtaining funding but also for clarifying research designs and career development goals.  However, grant writing historically has not been approached as a complex skill to teach and learn. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Rick McGee has developed a novel approach to teaching grant writing by first demonstrating the rhetorical patterns that reviewers have been conditioned to expect to see. This workshop will introduce this approach to grant writing and the importance of viewing it as communication activity in which a compelling ‘story’ is created. The workshop will also introduce how getting verbal feedback as proposals are being developed can be far more efficient and effective than traditional methods of written feedback.