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Visible Language 32.2: 1998
 Writing in the Age of Email: The Impact of Ideology versus Technology

 

 
Contents Abstract
I: Birds or Antelope: A Matter of Perspective
II: Composition in America
III: Email and Written American English
IV: Beyond American Shores
Bibliographic References

Abstract

Tracing social change and the evolution of writing and the English curriculum in the United States provides the base for an argument that integrates changing ideology as a strong factor in contemporary casual approaches to composition and technique in writing. Technology alone, the author argues, is not responsible for what is a more oral approach to written language. Emergent dimensions of email that alter communication access, social interaction and response are examined as contributory factors.
- Paul Auster

This paper was presented at the Tenth Annual Writing and Computers Conference in September, 1997 at the University of Brighton.

 

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