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Publication details [#52089]

Houser, Marian L., Renee L. Cowan and Keri K. Stephens. 2009. R U Able to Meat Me: The Impact of Students' Overly Casual Email Messages to Instructors. Communication Education 58 (3) : 303–326.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

casual speech | e-mail communication | ict-technology | student | teacher

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on Interaction Adaptation Theory, this study shows that overall, instructors are more bothered than students by too casual email messages, especially unsigned and shortcut messages. Whilst instructors attribute this usage to training issues, students attribute it to technology use.