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<p>Of course, folks will disagree on the answer. I have found that adhering to one genre makes more sense. Grad students always want to take on too much, and I always caution them to do depth without breadth. The breadth can be part of a lifetime's work.<br>
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<p>At any rate, that's my two cents.<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Diana Boxer, Ph.D.</font></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se <edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se> on behalf of mostari hind <hmostari@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Educational Linguistics List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Edling] About SMS</font>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463591364070_6022">Hi all , </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463591364070_6022" dir="ltr">I have a PHD student who would like to work on text messaging discourse as a gender marker , he proposed to work on SMS and emails and I see that focusing on SMS texts ONLY is better to have more reliable
and plausible findings , what do you think?</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463591364070_6022" dir="ltr">Best</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463591364070_6022" dir="ltr">Dr Mostari </div>
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