Janae Smith 19:09, 29 Jul 2004 (EST)
Janae Smith
Janae Smith 19:09, 29 Jul 2004 (EST)
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About Email (2004) About email netiquette
http://email.about.com/cs/netiquettetips/qt/et060902.htm (accessed August 11 2004)
About email is a website containing everything one needs to know about email. This includes sections such as “What’s Hot�, “Most Popular� and “Hot Tips�. The website is free for everyone to view and is a complete guide to email. There is the ‘essentials’, which describes how to get the most out of your email program, fun ideas to make your emails more exciting and learning the ins and outs of email. The email offers allow users to get spam free email and free mail servers. The website also contains articles and resources about getting started with email, finding the right software and email netiquette. This talks about the appropriate jargon to use in email, depending on the situation. Within the website there is also a buyers guide and a chance to partake in forums. About email is easily accessible website which is free to use, there is also the opportunity to sign up for a free newsletter. There is an opportunity to search within the website to make information easier to find. The website also contains sponsored links which takes the user to other websites with select email information. As well as this About Email includes information on computers and technology.
Baron, Naomi (2000) Alphabet to Email: How written English Evolved and Where it’s Heading London, Routledge, ISBN 0415186854
This book talks of the basics of English language, its roots and who helped establish it. Baron describes who writes, who reads and why and delves into the history of eighteenth century styles and the changes over time. It continues to describe the difference between writing a letter many years ago, to writing an email now days. This shows the significant changes that have come about, especially those regarding jargon. Emails have basically generated their own unique language, Baron talks of how it is much closer to speech than conventional writing. There is also informality in punctuation which adds to the spoken quality of the message. The linguistic profile of email includes social dynamics, format, grammar and style. Baron discusses the future of email and predicts that email will retain much of its independent character due to it being a medium which allows communication in situations where neither speech nor writing will substitute. This is a theoretical book which describes legitimating written English, setting the standards of language, the rise of the English comp and punctuation.
Burke, John (1996)Learning the Internet, New York, Neal-Schuman Publishers,
ISBN 1555702487
Throughout the fifteen chapters of this book, Burke explains a variety of Internet tools and sources and then allows the reader to try them out online. The aim is to put the reader in front of the computer so that they can practice what the book teaches. Burke has designed the book to give readers a practical introduction to the internet in a short and straightforward way. The last chapter also allows the reader to not only master the current techniques but suggests methods to stay up to date with developments within the internet. The book provides background information on each topic, then step by step instructions for each tool, the user then goes online independently with practice assignments.
Crumlish, Christian (1995)The Internet Dictionary, Alameda CA, United States of America, ISBN 0782116752
The Internet Dictionary contains many meanings associated with the internet. Therefore these are new words which have come about as technology has advanced. This book is not a technical manual, but a large list of the most common internet terms explained in plain English, it also includes many cross references in the definitions, which makes it easier to understand. The words are drawn from several interrelated categories. There are technical terms from the broad world of computers, networking and the internet. It also describes jargon, the terms that describe or are used within various services of the internet. Therefore it helps a user with the jargon used when writing emails as well as acronomys. The internet is evolving so rapidly that the book may be out of date and has only given a snapshot of the current state of things when the book was published. Yet a large portion of the vocabulary of the internet is fairly well established and won’t be continually changing. However new internet services will arise and bring their own jargon with then and addresses for some sites in the book will cease to function.
Kent, Peter (1994)The Complete Idoit’s Guide to the Internet, Indianapolis, Macmillan Computer Publishing, ISBN 156761535X
The Complete Idoit’s Guide to the Internet assumes that you’re internet illiterate. It assumes that you only want to use the internet for its own sake, but to get the job done, not to become an internet expert. This guide describes how to use the internet for its practical uses, such as, how to address an email message, how to find email addresses, how to transfer files from a computer on the internet back to your computer, how to copy and delete files created during your internet sessions, how to connect to newsgroups and join in discussions on just about any subject and how to do research in government and university computers. Certain conventions are used within the book to help make things easier for the user, such as putting the unknown information in italics. The Complete Idoit’s Guide also contains information on selecting what type of internet account and the best price , what you need to connect to the internet, how to get an account and how to get things up and running.
Kiesler, Sara (1997)Culture of the Internet, Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawerence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, ISBN 0805816356
Technology is continually changing and today’s there is an incredible spread of computer networks in society. Initially designed to help scientists and engineers connect to remote computers, networks spread through universities and technical organizations, then to the business communities, and then to the public. Kiesler describes that one of the aspects that makes the internet so special is the social interaction it is inspiring. This book is intended primarily for researchers and others who seek exposure to diverse approaches to studying the “people� side of electronic communication and the internet. Therefore the book has three purposes. To illustrate how scientists are thinking about evolving social behavior on the Internet, to encourage research-based contributions to currents debates on design, applications, and policies, and to suggest by example, how studies of electronic communication can contribute to social science itself. One theme that is central to all the chapters in the book is that electronic communication is a politically and personally sensitive technology. A second theme across the chapters is that electronic communication can have both mundane and significant social effects. There is also a theme of the close connection researcher’s tend to keep between questions of their disciplines and research on electronic communication.
Ryan, Marie-Laure, (1999)Cyberspace Textuality Computer Technology and Literary Theory, Bloomington Indiana, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253334659
Electronic textuality offers many features that turn the public text into a private language. In hypertext and dynamic cybertexts, nobody else will be able to see the same sequence of signs, in a computer game, one becomes the hero of the unfolding story, in the textual world of the MOOs you may reinvent yourself, when you work with an interactive database, you may create your own customized text by cutting, pasting, linking and annotating. Ryan tells of how the dream of the text that reflects the individuality of reader is epitomized by the poetry machines of John Cayley. Traditional print texts are not considered interactive because they impose a sequential reading protocol, but the accessibility of all their pages at any given time offers an escape from the prescribed order. In another respect electronic textuality stands alone against print and oral texts. In most forms of print literature the written word is treated as a substitute for the spoken word.
Shelly B, Cashman T, Vermaat M, (2002)Discovering Computers 2003, USA, Thomson Learning, ISBN 0789565145
Discovering computers is a text book which provides an in-depth treatment of introductory computer subjects. By completing the book it aims to present the reader with a solid understanding of computers, how to use computers and how to access information on the World Wide Web. The objectives of the text book include the fundamentals of computers, why they are essential components in business and society, offer alternative learning techniques via the web and present strategies for purchasing, installing and maintaining a computer. Therefore it is obvious that the topic of emails and the jargon that is used are covered within the book. Each chapter ends with six sections titled In Summary, Key Terms, Learn it Online, Checkpoint, In the Lab, and Web Work. Those sections are also stored as pages on the Web therefore users of the book can also learn practically not only theoretically and broaden their understanding of the topic. The text book also includes many visuals, a list of meanings from all the terms used within the book and exercises at the end of every chapter, which help the reader learn and understand the information. A data disk is also included with the book which includes some of the exercises from the text.
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