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Pinto, Derrin. 2019. Shifting responsibilities: Student e-mail excuses and how faculty perceive them. Lingua 222 : 53–73.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper explores e-mail apologies sent by undergraduate university students to professors. A corpus of 200 messages is assayed according to the kind of violation, the nature of the apology and the diverse strategies employed. The responsibility category was found to be the most potent factor impacting both positive and negative appraisal of the apologies, followed by matters regarding motive, and to a much lesser degree, style and timing.