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INTRODUCTION:

The purpose of this page is to request permission to use this survey information and your ESL writing for research purposes. This research is approved by UIUC IRB office on 2015/10/29. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to yliu198@illinois.edu, the researcher Ms. Yilan Liu.

In order to study what are the tricks that lead to excellent English writing, and to help Chinese ESL writers at the ESL writing Service Courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to deliver their English writing language better, students writing assignments samples for the 2015 Fall semester will be collected. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated and help the researcher learn what students have difficulties with, how their writing skills can be improved, and what teaching suggestions can be made.

Any essays used for this research will be only used to study the language, such as grammar. They will not be used to collect information about grades or instructor's feedback. All participants' IDENTITIES WILL BE HIGHLY PROTECTED.

Giving your permission is completely VOLUNTARY. Your grade in these essay assignments will NOT be affected by your choice to contribute or not.

The University requires that before doing this survey, you should be aware of the content of this research, and that it will lead to no harm to you mentally or physically base on the University Behavior-research consent. Read the full version HERE: http://tinyurl.com/consentgrammar

Please complete your consent form below to give permission to the researcher Yilan Liu to use your survey and essays for her research purposes. If you do not want to give permission, then do not allow. Then click "continue" to complete the survey questions.