Jerz: Writing for the Internet (EL 236)


15 Sep 2006

Ex 3: Audience and Style Variations

The way we write depends heavily on the context in which we write. 1) Look through your archives, and find a personal e-mail (or chat transcript) and a more professional e-mail (or a letter you sent on paper). Identify and eplain the reaons for several specific differences. (200 words). 2) Rewrite the personal message in the style of a formal e-mail, and rewrite the formal communication in the style of an informal chat transcript. Play the role of the recipient, and write back in the same style, or a comletely different style. Be creative. (300 words.) 3) Write up a list of 3 significant issues you feel this exercise has illustrated, or questions it has raised in your mind. Refer specifically to material we have already covered in the course. (150 words.)

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I had just sent a professional e-mail over the weekend to a company that I had purchased a faulty item. I had described what was wrong and where I had purchased the product, the next day I had recieved a response acknowledging my letter of intent. This assignment reversed the roles we play in our daily lives and put us in the minds of professionals, how they view our writing structure.The issues at hand are etiquette for e-mail users, grammar and sentence strusture, and communication, how we got our point across.

Posted by: jeremy barrick at September 13, 2006 10:18 AM
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