Microethnographies of Electronic Discourse Communities: Establishing Exigency for E-mail in the Professional Writing Classroom

Computers and Composition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-91

  Blair, Kristine L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse communities; E mail; Ideology; Internet; Microethnography; Professional writing; Writing, professional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039579302     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(96)90037-7     Document Type: Article

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