E-mail as Genre: A Beginning Writer Learns the Conventions.

Wollman-Bonilla, Julie E.

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ERIC Number: EJ678614

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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E-mail as Genre: A Beginning Writer Learns the Conventions.

Wollman-Bonilla, Julie E.

Language Arts, v81 n2 p126-34 Nov 2003

Presents a case study of one six-year-old that suggests that e-mail messages foster different skills and conventions than does print-based letter writing. Hopes to illuminate the writing practices children might develop as they engage in e-mail communication. (SG)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Elementary Education, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: Popular Culture and Media Literacy.