08-11-2005, 10:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2005, 11:03 PM by [wcip]Angel.)
Hello again!
As some of you may remember, I came asking for your help a few
weeks ago. If you don’t recall, or if you didn’t see my thread, click on
this link:
http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index...topic=6234
Assuming you didn’t read my initial thread, I’m conducting research for
a master’s thesis about online communication. Originally, I had
planned on using your e-mails as research material, (and thank you
very much for those of you who submitted), but as it turned out, there
weren’t enough participants. I told my supervisor what you told me:
that many of you didn’t collect your outgoing e-mails. After having
considered my options, we found out that I were to use forum posts in
addition to e-mails. (To those who have already submitted 20 e-mails
to me: fear not, I will still make good use of what you sent me. :)
Also, it would also be of great value if those who sent me their
e-mails could also participate again by sending me your forum posts!)
So now I come asking for your help again. If you would like to
participate in my study on online communication, please send me your
last 20 forum posts to this address: literacy.study@gmail.com.
Forum posts is something everyone can contribute with, because you
all have them :) I hope this makes it easier, so that many more of
you can participate. Don’t worry about the length, content, style or
grammatical accuracy of your post. All I’m interested in is actual text.
The criteria you need to meet are as follows:
1. It needs to be 20 forum posts you've already written, not future ones
2. Please do not edit, proofread for errors, or amend your posts in any way,
except (see 3)
3. You may remove all sensitive information. (Your real name, private information
(phone number, bank account number, information of an intimate nature, etc.))
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One of the most time consuming parts of writing a thesis is organising the source
material (in this case, the text in your forum posts). However, if you were to follow
these easy guidelines, it would lessen my workload immensely:
a) Copy the text from your last 20 forum posts into an e-mail.
B) Please separate these 20 forum posts by 3 asterix ("***") so it's easier to distinguish
where one post ends and another one starts.
c) In the topic heading of the e-mail you're going to send me (the one containing
the text from your last 20 posts), please use this format for the subject title:
"<Name of board>. <Online Nickname>. <Nationality>. <Gender>".
Example: "The Lurkerlounge. Diabloslayer666. American. Male."
d) After you've copied the text from 20 posts into a single e-mail, and made the
topic heading, please send it to me at: literacy.study@gmail.com.
Again, thank you very much for your help.
Best regards
- [wcip]Angel // Eirik Jakobsen
PS: Special note for administrators: For reasons of accuracy and concordance I'm
not using my previous thread (which still exists on the third page on the Lounge). I am
in no ways seeking to challenge the established rules and regulations of the
Lurkerlounge. I'm merely doing this for academic purposes only, and I hope you'll
look the other way just this once. Thank you.
As some of you may remember, I came asking for your help a few
weeks ago. If you don’t recall, or if you didn’t see my thread, click on
this link:
http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index...topic=6234
Assuming you didn’t read my initial thread, I’m conducting research for
a master’s thesis about online communication. Originally, I had
planned on using your e-mails as research material, (and thank you
very much for those of you who submitted), but as it turned out, there
weren’t enough participants. I told my supervisor what you told me:
that many of you didn’t collect your outgoing e-mails. After having
considered my options, we found out that I were to use forum posts in
addition to e-mails. (To those who have already submitted 20 e-mails
to me: fear not, I will still make good use of what you sent me. :)
Also, it would also be of great value if those who sent me their
e-mails could also participate again by sending me your forum posts!)
So now I come asking for your help again. If you would like to
participate in my study on online communication, please send me your
last 20 forum posts to this address: literacy.study@gmail.com.
Forum posts is something everyone can contribute with, because you
all have them :) I hope this makes it easier, so that many more of
you can participate. Don’t worry about the length, content, style or
grammatical accuracy of your post. All I’m interested in is actual text.
The criteria you need to meet are as follows:
1. It needs to be 20 forum posts you've already written, not future ones
2. Please do not edit, proofread for errors, or amend your posts in any way,
except (see 3)
3. You may remove all sensitive information. (Your real name, private information
(phone number, bank account number, information of an intimate nature, etc.))
------
One of the most time consuming parts of writing a thesis is organising the source
material (in this case, the text in your forum posts). However, if you were to follow
these easy guidelines, it would lessen my workload immensely:
a) Copy the text from your last 20 forum posts into an e-mail.
B) Please separate these 20 forum posts by 3 asterix ("***") so it's easier to distinguish
where one post ends and another one starts.
c) In the topic heading of the e-mail you're going to send me (the one containing
the text from your last 20 posts), please use this format for the subject title:
"<Name of board>. <Online Nickname>. <Nationality>. <Gender>".
Example: "The Lurkerlounge. Diabloslayer666. American. Male."
d) After you've copied the text from 20 posts into a single e-mail, and made the
topic heading, please send it to me at: literacy.study@gmail.com.
Again, thank you very much for your help.
Best regards
- [wcip]Angel // Eirik Jakobsen
PS: Special note for administrators: For reasons of accuracy and concordance I'm
not using my previous thread (which still exists on the third page on the Lounge). I am
in no ways seeking to challenge the established rules and regulations of the
Lurkerlounge. I'm merely doing this for academic purposes only, and I hope you'll
look the other way just this once. Thank you.
