A. Select Bibliography on using Email Discussion Lists Summaries of some of the articles listed in the Select Bibliography . For a class titled The Early Romantic Period , I developed a list of very specific questions for the whole class to discuss on an email discussion list. For a later class on the same subject, The Early Romantics , another list of questions were devised to be answered by groups in the class. An Argument for Imposed guidelines that are too rigid will constrain discussion, causing participants to worry about he nature of their posts rather than to simply post. In contrast to Palloff and Pratt, I want students to care about the nature of their posts.
Email is in general sent too quickly, with no attention to the form of a message.
Below are resources I use to grade email messages and for writing instruction.