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AN INVESTIGATION INTO STUDENTS' ACADEMIC EMAIL PRACTICES AND THEIR ATTITUDES TO CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN THEIR EMAIL MESSAGES Sadia Ali@zu.ac.ae, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Vol 2 No 2, June 2005
Abstract: Students’ assignments are often much better in style and organisation than the email messages they send to their teachers. Some teachers, including myself, often ‘covertly’ correct students’ email messages for style, organisation, content, or correctness. While some students appreciate this extra effort from the teachers, others see it as an inhibiting intrusion. However, I have frequently noticed that students who are corrected repeatedly improve in writing emails. My research concerns both the use of academic email writing and the correction of errors in student emails, and concludes the following: students usually write only formal emails to their teachers; those instructors who correct email errors do not offer explicit error correction; and if email writing were taught to the students, it would offer variety in the writing genres students currently compose.
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