College Composition and Communication May 1996

Postings on a Genre of Email

Michael Spooner ; Kathleen Yancey

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 Interesting that you call it an we're turning discourse conventions of essay/dialogue (nice slide, that the net-often a rather casual medione). But many readers will exum-to some fairly stuffed-shirt acapect a real essay here-or, betdemic purposes. terworse, an academic essay. And we know what that means: a sin-

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
1996-05-01
DOI
10.2307/358795
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