Advantages And Disadvantages Of Electronic Mail

Electronic mail is rather a means of communication that is undergoing increasing progress around the world. E-mail messages can be sent across various sorts of networks, both locally and globally. Apart from the Internet there are thousands of local area networks and wide area networks that send millions more messages every day across diverse kinds of transmission cable. Electronic mail over the Internet, the world's greatest computer network, is experiencing exploding growth daily.

-Using E-mail in the Writing Class

Employing e-mail in a writing class can take place over any type of network as long as workstations with e-mail software are speedily handy to the students. This could be in a lab, over a campus network, or across the Internet.

Conventionally, teachers often receive dozens of papers, assignments, and pieces of writing from their students each term.These pieces of paper frequently get ordered (or should I say disorganized) on desks, in brief cases, in filing cabinets, at home, in the office, in the classroom, and so on. The age-old hassle of shuffling, filing, and retrieving these papers is almost elradicated. With the click of a mouse modern e-mail software permits groupings of messages by student name, by date received, or by project name. Writing assignments received can be arranged electronically by any one of these classifications. These types of groupings make it simpler for the teacher to actually observe the process which their students are applying when writing. This process can be monitored and examined much more successfully and logically by the teacher who can also consider and organize student or groupwork more effortlessly and methodically. The teacher can immediatey retrieve student writing for future analyses and

When learners get in contact with each other using e-mail, their public is likely to focus nearly on the mail itself and not so much on the form, grammar, spelling, mechanics, etc. A last , but not least, wothwhile feature of e-mail is that shy students have a forum for expressing themselves and asking questions.Sometimes, some students who do not like to communicate in a group are likely to do better with writing. Since students often produce more content electronically than with conventional pen-and-pencil practices, timid students often tend to reveal their opinions more overtly without fear. This can give students self-reliance and finally enhance their writing ability.

-Sample e-mail Assignments and Activities We are going to precisely describe some plain e-mail activities that we have used in my third year writing class during a 45-minute session in the lab or over the course of the term. For a number of these assignments and activities explained below we have produced student handouts. Please note that these tasks operate most usefully with software as Eudora, Microsoft mail or programs similar to them them in which the backgrounds are personalized for the user. NCSA Telnet or particular types of communication software cannot handle enormous volumes of incoming or outgoing mail without difficulty.