Electronic Mail and the Writing Instructor

Hawisher, Gail E.; Moran, Charles

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“…Thus, this study supported the initial claims of Hawisher and Moran (1993) that e-mail has been undergoing constant modifications in form and in style, from formal and extended texts to short messages, and of Yell (2003) that it can be a hybrid of spoken and written communication. In addition, the professional register in internal communication e-mails is not static, rather it is dynamically fluctuating from neutral to casual or formal tones depending on some intervening factors like relationships of the communicators, subject and purpose of the message, the need for immediate response, and the introduced format of the sender prior to the response.…”

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“…Alongside inevitable innovations in the new information technology, e-mail has undergone continuous modifications in form and in style, from formal and extended texts (Hawisher & Moran, 1993) to instant and simplified messages similar to mobile texting formats (Baron, 2000) (as cited in Gimenez-Moreno, & Skorczynska, 2013). Leslie (1994) however, emphasizes that while there is a general agreement over the benefits of e-mail, for example, its ability to send information almost instantaneously to a large number of recipients, researchers disagree on the potential negative or unintended effects.…”

Section: E-mails In Internal Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of Professional Register in Internal Communication Electronic Mails

Marquez¹

2016

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This study employs a corpus-based approach to identify and examine professional register features and some cultural-rhetorical patterns from a corpus of 50 internal communication electronic mails (e-mails) randomly culled from one Filipino and two American companies. Using the ten linguistic parameters in register variation in professional communication, similarities and differences in professional register features, as well as fluctuation tendencies, have been accounted. The findings have revealed that both e-mail corpora from the two language communities contained features significantly marked by professional casual register. However, a close inspection of the individual parameter frequency results has revealed considerable differences including register fluctuation tendencies, conformities to genre norms and conventionalities, and some culture-related rhetorical peculiarities. Moreover, the study has provided explanations on the importance of understanding rhetorical differences across cultures, as well as suggestions for further research endeavors on the given genre and language research field.

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Section: E-mails In Internal Communicationmentioning

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A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of Professional Register in Internal Communication Electronic Mails

Marquez¹

2016

IJL

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“…Hawisher [45] and Hawisher and Moran [31] examined e-mail utilization in a college language class and confirmed 'the equalization phenomenon'; that is, the first-year college students in the e-mail group asserted themselves more frequently and had a greater influence on the group than those in the face-toface (FTF) group. A CMC environment with the potential of expression equality enhances learner-learner and learner-teacher interactions.…”

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“…Interaction among instructors and students can be enhanced because students can reiterate or ask follow-up questions without the concern that their questions will be naïve [30]. E-mail discussions encourage students who are sometimes silenced because of their status, race, handicap, or gender to speak up, to participate in e-mail discussions in ways that they avoid in traditional class settings [31]. Quiet students often contribute rather profound insights and questions that they would not have offered in a traditional class.…”

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Critical examination of factors affecting interaction on CMC

2000

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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“…Teachers also believed that there could be a decrease in leader-centered participation. All these claims were grounded in an egalitarian ethos (see Hawisher 1992 for a review of these claims). That computer-mediated communication might improve the writing class in ways that fostered egalitarianism grew out of writing teachers' experience but was also grounded in studies that Sara Kiesler and her colleagues conducted at Carnegie Mellon, research which began in 1984 and which continues today.…”

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Hawisher¹

1999

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1. English language-Rhetoric-Study and teaching-Technological innovations. 2. English language-Rhetoric-Study and teaching-Data processing. 3. English language-Composition and exercises--Data processing. 4. Academic writing-Study and teaching-Technological innovations. 5. Academic writing-Study and teaching-Data processing. 6. Information technology. studies traditionally link life in the profession with the world of privilege and leisure in protected enclaves often associated with the upper classes-they seldom, 2 Gail E Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe if ever, mention technology. College English professors of both sexes tend to be represented as bookish types in tweeds and corduroys, wielding leaky pens, outfitted in the suitably subdued colors of navy and tan, and, more recently, in the pervasive all-black of those likely to take cultural studies as their field of study. And yet, all of this, one might argue, the pens, the books, and the attire, can be understood as technologies that are associated with language studies-even though the black of traditional academic robes has been afforded new authority with the ascendancy of postmodernism and the computer has assumed new importance in our study of discourses, communication, and language.But these changes notwithstanding, as Richard Ohmann argues above, many in the public sphere continue to see English professors as occupying a station in life that requires less in the way of hourly, accounted-for-labor than that of their neighbors inhabiting worlds outside of academe. And, although we know that few citizens would cast English professors in the role of hauling manure to beautify the grounds of their college campuses, as Rudolf above describes Fletcher O. Marsh, few, also, we would argue, construct them as the erudite technology-wielding expert that English graduate student Matthew G. Kirschenbaum aspires to become through his work in the academy. Yet these various and contradictory renditions of English professors exist side-by-side in a world that is changing so fast that any commonplace understandings of what we're about as scholars and teachers in English studies are constantly being called into question-even our own. The passions that mark us-teaching, texts, the day-to-day work environs, the challenges of a changing society and sometimes the new technologies-descend from the scholarly deeds of those who have gone before us; yet they also mean that we enter the future transformed. Certainly the trajectories of our own lives-especially those portions that combine interests in the humanities and in the design, use, and study of computer technologies-escape easy classification and evade the stereotypes of English professors which continue to be kept alive in popular society.As English professors who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and entered the profession in the 1970s, neither of us started teaching with computers; we learned as we went. And what we learned convinced us that computers were becoming increasingly important in educational settings-not simply becau...

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Electronic Mail and the Writing Instructor

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A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of Professional Register in Internal Communication Electronic Mails

A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of Professional Register in Internal Communication Electronic Mails

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