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Article
Postings on a Genre of E-Mail
College Composition and Communication
Document Type
Article
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of English
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Disciplines
Abstract
I was talking with a novelist recently about various kinds of writing-nothing special, just happy-hour talk-and I found my earnest self assuring him that, oh yes, academic writing nowadays will tolerate a number of different styles and voices. (I should know, right? I'm in academic publishing.) He choked; he slapped my arm; he laughed out loud. I don't remember if he spit his drink back in the glass. Silly me, I was serious. And, among other things, I was thinking about this essay/dialogue, in which we're turning discourse conventions of the net - often a rather casual medium - to some fairly stuffed-shirt academic purposes.
Citation Information
1996. "Postings on a genre of e-mail," with Kathleen Yancey. College Composition and Communication,
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