Email application correspondence
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<strong>Dr. Mohan Patil</strong><br />
Awesome Science faculty<br />
University of Awesome<br />
Bengaluru, KA 99999,<br />
INDIA<br />
<strong>Tel</strong>: 123-456-7890<br />
<strong>Email</strong>: no_reply@example.com
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<time datetime="2016-01-20">20 January 2016</time>
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<strong>Miss Pooja Reddy</strong><br />
4321 Gandhi Top road<br />
Mumbai, MH 99999<br />
INDIA
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<h1>Re: Pooja Reddy - University application</h1>
<p>Dear Pooja,</p>
<p>
Thank you for your recent application to join us at the University of
Awesome's science faculty to study as part of your
<abbr>PhD</abbr> (Doctor of Philosophy) next year. I will answer your
questions one by one, in the following sections.
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<h2>Starting dates</h2>
<p>
We are happy to accommodate you starting your study with us at any time,
however it would suit us better if you could start at the beginning of a
semester; the start dates for each one are as follows:
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First semester: <time datetime="2016-09-09">9 September 2016</time>
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Second semester: <time datetime="2017-01-15">15 January 2017</time>
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<li>Third semester: <time datetime="2017-05-02">2 May 2017</time></li>
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Please let me know if this is ok, and if so which start date you would
prefer.
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You can find more information about
<a
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title="table of awesome university important dates"
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on our website.
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<h2>Subjects of study</h2>
<p>
At the Awesome Science Faculty, we have a pretty open-minded research
facility — as long as the subjects fall somewhere in the realm of science
and technology. You seem like an intelligent, dedicated researcher, and
just the kind of person we'd like to have on our team. Saying that, of the
ideas you submitted we were most intrigued by are as follows, in order of
priority:
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Turning H<sub>2</sub>O into wine, and the health benefits of Resveratrol
(C<sub>14</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>3</sub>.)
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<li>
Measuring the effect on performance of funk bassplayers at temperatures
exceeding 30°C (86°F), when the audience size exponentially increases
(effect of 3 × 10<sup>3</sup> increasing to 3 × 10<sup>4</sup>.)
</li>
<li>
<abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> and
<abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> constructs for
representing musical scores.
</li>
</ol>
<p>
So please can you provide more information on each of these subjects,
including how long you'd expect the research to take, required staff and
other resources, and anything else you think we'd need to know? Thanks.
</p>
<h2>Exotic dance moves</h2>
<p>
Yes, you are right! As part of my post-doctorate work, I
<em>did</em> study exotic tribal dances. To answer your question, my
favourite dances are as follows, with definitions:
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<dt>Polynesian chicken dance</dt>
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A little known but <em>very</em> influential dance dating back as far as
300 <abbr>BC</abbr>, a whole village would dance around in a circle like
chickens, to encourage their livestock to be "fruitful".
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<dt>Icelandic brownian shuffle</dt>
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Before the Icelanders developed fire as a means of getting warm, they
used to practice this dance, which involved huddling close together in a
circle on the floor, and shuffling their bodies around in imperceptibly
tiny, very rapid movements. One of my fellow students used to say that
he thought this dance inspired modern styles such as Twerking.
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<dt>Arctic robot dance</dt>
<dd>
An interesting example of historic misinformation, English explorers in
the 1960s believed to have discovered a new dance style characterised by
"robotic", stilted movements, being practiced by inhabitants of Northern
Alaska and Canada. Later on however it was discovered that they were
just moving like this because they were really cold.
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For more of my research, see my
<a
href="http://www.example.com"
aria-label="Exotic dance research"
>exotic dance research page</a
>.
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<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>Dr Mohan Patil</p>
<p>
University of Awesome motto: <q>Be awesome to each other.</q> --
<cite
>The memoirs of Bill S Preston, <abbr title="Esquire">Esq.</abbr></cite
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