Writing Research Statement for Academic Jobs

Since my colleague is preparing for a research fellowship application, I thought I would search around for useful materials. These materials will probably come useful to me one day too..

Here's what I found:

From UPenn
www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradstud/Writing_Research_Statement.ppt

From MIT
http://gsc.students.mtu.edu/funding/GeneralFellowshipProposalWriting.pdf#search=%22how%20to%20write%20future%20research%20plan%22
(Seems more applicable for sciences)

From Harvard
http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/financial/essays.html

And since I generally leave the best to the last (ask my wife- I finish my my rice before starting on the fish or whichever the main dish)
http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/pdfs/scholarly_pursuits.pdf