Q View as TextDownload / 1 Document Analysis Activity Revising for Conciseness and Simplicity The following passage is from a request for proposal published by the National Science Foundation. The questions below ask you to think about word choice as discussed in the chapter. 1. Grants.gov, part of the President’s Management Agenda to improve government services to the public, provides a single government-wide portal for finding and applying for federal grants online. 2. Proposals submitted by Grants.gov must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Application Guide , available through Grants.gov. 3. The Grants.gov application guide contains important information on: General instructions for submission via Grants.gov; NSF specific instructions for submission via Grants.gov, including creation of PDF files; Grant application package instructions; Required SF 424 (R&R) forms; and NSF specific forms and instructions. 4. Upon successful insertion of the Grants.gov submitted proposal in the NSF FastLane system, no further interaction with Grants.gov is required. 5. All further interaction is conducted via the NSF FastLane system. Information from the National Science Foundation, 2008. Answer the questions below either in class or in the drop box provided for you under “Assessments.” 1. This passage contains many prepositional phrases. Identify two of them. For each one, determine if its use is justified or whether the sentence would be easier to understand without it. 2. Part of this passage is written in the passive voice. Select one sentence in the passive voice that would be clearer in the active voice, and rewrite it in the active voice. 3. Identify two of the fancy words used in this passage. How can they be translated into plain English?