The importance of communicative, written, and technological fluencies cannot be over emphasized. So to do the best for our students as they prepare themselves for university study which will lead to employment in the real world, we should provide opportunities to develop these skills. Something else to consider is how our students will use e-mail on campus after they leave our program.
Brevity is the soul of e-mail.
Messages are bounced back and forth. In his book E-mail for English Teaching , Mark Warschauer talks about evaluating these kinds of projects. All comments are encouraged and welcomed. Tesol Journal , Winter, 28-31. The Coming Ubiquity of Information Technology.