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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yanar Hashlamon, Dr. Sushil Oswal, and I are writing to invite people to participate in a nationwide study about undergraduate business, professional, and/or technical writing
classes. If you or someone you know has in the last five years taken or is currently enrolled in a business, professional, and/or technical writing class, please share this invitation with them. The title of the study is, “<a href="https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KmKYa6dllAZYfc">Professional
Writing Pedagogies for Neurodiverse and/or Disabled Writers</a>” and it has been approved by Ohio State University’s IRB (Protocol #2018B0473).
<b>Participants do not have to identify as neurodiverse and/or disabled in order to participate</b>.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">They simply need to have taken a business, professional, and/or technical writing course in the last five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are investigating how undergraduate business, professional, and/or technical writing classes attend to different students’ learning needs and writing practices. We are interested
in hearing about students’ experiences with different kinds of classroom and learning activities—specifically, what types of activities do students feel are important? Which activities do students find difficult?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KmKYa6dllAZYfc">Here is a link to a survey</a> that will ask about students’ experiences in that class. Participants will
also be asked if they identify as neurodiverse and/or a person with a disability; they may choose not to answer. Participants’ responses will be confidential and will not be shared with their professor or classmates. If participants ever want to stop participating
in the survey, they can do so at any time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The survey should take between 10-15 minutes to complete, after which participants may choose to enter a raffle for
<b>one of ten $25 digital gift cards</b>. Participants will also be asked if they would like to participate in an optional, compensated follow-up interview via Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Participation in the study is completely voluntary. We hope you will consider participating! Your insight is important to this project and has the potential to change how business,
professional, and technical writing classes are taught. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. This research is supported by a
<a href="https://drakeinstitute.osu.edu/">Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching & Learning Grant</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full survey URL & QR code: <a href="https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KmKYa6dllAZYfc">https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KmKYa6dllAZYfc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="125" height="125" style="width:1.302in;height:1.302in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D8219B.91DDA860" alt="Qr code
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Christa Teston<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:teston.2@osu.edu">teston.2@osu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Associate Professor, English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director, Business, Professional & Technical Writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ohio State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yanar Hashlamon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:hashlamon.1@osu.edu">hashlamon.1@osu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graduate Teaching Associate, English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ohio State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sushil Oswal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:oswal@uw.edu">oswal@uw.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor, Human-Centered Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Affiliate Associate Professor, Disability Studies Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">University of Washington, Tacoma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="224" height="45" style="width:2.3333in;height:.4687in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D82198.90B5AA80" alt="The Ohio State University"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000">Christa Teston, PhD
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(</span><a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">she/her</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
Vice Chair, Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Program<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000">College of Arts and Sciences</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> English Department<br>
506 Denney Hall, 164 Annie and John Glenn Ave., Columbus, OH 43210<br>
</span><a href="http://www.christateston.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.christateston.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#333333">à</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> Christa’s
</span><a href="https://osu.zoom.us/j/3162504647?pwd=VUFqc1NFV2RGTi9mcVhEeFZYanRUQT09"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Zoom Meeting Room</span></a></p>
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