<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Julie Yelle</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jyelle@umd.edu">jyelle@umd.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 2:28 PM<br>Subject: Please Share: Paid Study on Diversity in Writing Styles around the Globe<br>To: <a href="mailto:attworg@gmail.com">attworg@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:attworg@gmail.com">attworg@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Good afternoon,</font><br><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:18.2042px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px">M</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:18.2042px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px">y research team is seeking native and non-native (advanced) speakers of English (and/or Russian) </span></span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.2042px">to participate in an ongoing paid study on the diversity of writing styles around the globe. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.2042px">This study is approved by the internal review board (IRB) of the University of Maryland, College Park, and the IRB number of the study is </span>2091700-5.<span style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Our team hopes that the documents we collect will help provide some insight into how individual writing styles differ by region and document type.</span><br></div><div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.2042px"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.2042px">Participants in this <span>study</span> will be asked to author original writing samples for several different genres. Participation is entirely online, and compensation will be provided upon proper completion of <span>study</span> participation tasks. More information is available at <a href="http://go.umd.edu/writingstudy-e" target="_blank">go.umd.edu/writingstudy-e</a> for English (and <a href="http://go.umd.edu/writingstudy-ru" target="_blank">go.umd.edu/writingstudy-ru</a> for Russian).</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.2042px"><br></span></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:18.2042px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We would greatly appreciate it if you could <span>share</span> our <span>study</span> information with ATTW members and anyone else aged 18 or older, inside or outside of the United States, who you think might be interested in taking part. Please find attached a printable flyer and a digital advertisement for each language.</font></span></span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:18.2042px">Thank you for your time and consideration. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.</span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.2042px">Best regards,</span></font></p></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Julie Yelle, MA<br><span style="background-color:transparent">Senior</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> Faculty Research Specialist<br></span><font color="#222222">University of Maryland<br></font><a href="mailto:jyelle@umd.edu" target="_blank">jyelle@umd.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.umd.edu/" target="_blank">www.umd.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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