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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Dear U.L. Staff & fellow students,</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>My name is Grace Sheahan and I am an M.A. English
Language Teaching student who is about to undertake my thesis research.</span></font></b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>My thesis will look at linguistic features of
mobile phone text speak. In order to investigate this I want to collate a body
of text message samples of everyday chat.</span></font></b><font size=4
color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>This is where you come in. </span></font></b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>I would welcome ANY typical texts that you
receive/ send & forward it/them on to my research mobile phone number</span></font></b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>086 3444032</span></font></b><font size=4
color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>If you have no credit, please web text me
any examples.</span></font></b><font size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>All received texts shall be transcribed, minus
numbers</span></font></b><font size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>I don't want your name but please add M or F
to indicate your gender</span></font></b><font size=4 color=black><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>.</span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Thank you very much for taking the time to
read this & for being a willing participant.</span></font></b><font size=4><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Grace Sheahan (09001149@studentmail.ul.ie</span></font></b><b><font
size=6 color=black><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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