Including a pen and/or cover letter, containing social incentive text, had no effect on questionnaire response rate: a factorial randomised controlled Study within a Trial [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Background: Postal questionnaires are frequently used in randomised controlled trials to collect outcome data on participants; however, poor response can introduce bias, affect generalisability and validity, and reduce statistical power. The objective of
Caroline Fairhurst +7 more
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Impact of different cover letter information and incentives on Veterans’ emotional responses to an unsolicited mailed survey about military traumas: a randomized, 3x2x2 factorial trial [PDF]
Background Altering cover letter information to reduce non-response bias in trauma research could inadvertently leave survey participants unprepared for potentially upsetting questions.
Maureen Murdoch +4 more
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Theoretically-informed vs standard cover letter to improve participant response to mailed questionnaire: results of an embedded randomised retention trial [PDF]
Background Participant non-response is a source of bias in all research, especially in randomised controlled trials. Participants followed up remotely can have high non-response rates.
Colin C. Everett +6 more
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How to choose a journal and write a cover letter
Selecting a suitable journal for submitting a manuscript can be a complex and confusing task, and end in disappointment when a paper is rejected quickly for reasons that may not be clear to the author.
Duncan Nicholas
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A poem on the endless job hunt for early career sociologists
anil Prakash +6 more
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Dr. Pramaditya Wicaksono, M.Sc. Chief Organizer of ICoSIA 2020 Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta – Indonesia December 4th, 2020 Dear IOP Conference Proceeding Coordinators, We wish to submit our conference papers in International Conference of Smart and ...
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This is the cover letter for volume nine issue ...
Xu Dongjing +4 more
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Includes cover page, table of content, and letter from the editor.
Dana Pomykal Franz
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Art of publication: The title, abstract, and cover letter
Kieran Walsh
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Constraints imposed on the creative cover letter writing by digital online job advertisements
Genre studies on the job cover letter (letter of application) have focused mainly on linguistic analyses of the genre in terms of the generic structure and linguistic strategies commonly used by applicants.
Debbie Guan Eng Ho, Alex Henry
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