Grant applications and proposals for telescope time share many aspects in common. Members of time allocation committees and grant application reviewers see many of the same mistakes over and over again, and these can significantly effect your chances of getting access to the resources you need to do science.

As a past member of ATAC (the committee awarding Australian time on the Anglo-Australian Telescope), and the current Chair of the Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences panel of the ARC's College of Experts, I'd like to take this opportunity to help astronomers and physicists eliminate some of these problems, so as to give your science the best possible chance of shining through.