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This writing-intensive course provides the fundamentals to write effective research grant proposals for graduate students with research thesis projects in life and environmental sciences. The course focuses on grantsmanship skills and mechanics, and trains students in articulating well-reasoned hypotheses and clear rationales, as well as organizing and discussing experimental approaches, caveats, outcomes and interpretations. Through peer-partner work, mock review panels and instructor feedback, the course instills the criteria of grant peer review and fosters the critical self-awareness that is necessary for successful grant applications. The course will equip students with skills for competitive fellowship applications, and careers that involve research project design and presentation.