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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My name is Guoshuai (Albert) Shi, and I am a PhD student working under the supervision of Professor Michael W. Godfrey and Professor Shane McIntosh in the Software Analytics Group (SWAG)
in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We have created a research study that examines how programmers read, understand, and repair source code, and how this relates to programming experience. We would like to invite you to participate
by completing a short online pre-screening questionnaire for the main phase of the research, which involves code comprehension tasks.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The questionnaire asks about your programming background, including your experience with Java and general programming experience. Completing the questionnaire will take approximately 3-5
minutes.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This questionnaire is just a quick step to see if the main study's tasks would be a good fit for you. If so, we'll follow up with an invitation to join. Participation at every stage is voluntary,
and you're free to stop at any point without penalty.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This study has been reviewed and received ethics clearance through a University of Waterloo Research Ethics Board (REB #46625).</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you are interested, please follow the link below to review the consent information and complete the questionnaire:</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://forms.gle/6q67SFHpX2aJi6fK9" data-outlook-id="4d54a157-22d3-4957-ad3c-f06c3a8451f4">https://forms.gle/6q67SFHpX2aJi6fK9</a> </div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have any questions about the questionnaire or the study, please feel free to contact me at albert.shi@uwaterloo.ca.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for your time and consideration.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sincerely,</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Guoshuai (Albert) Shi, PhD Student</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">University of Waterloo</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">albert.shi@uwaterloo.ca</div>
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