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In this essay, I present an email “tutorial”between myself and a graduate student enrolled in our master’s program in Technical Communication and Information Design (TCID).
The student, Ruth, works full time as a technical writer and pursues her graduate degree in the evenings at the Illinois Institute of Technology. During the last year, we have generated over 200 email messages about her thesis. Sometimes we exchange posts rather quickly; sometimes not so quickly. Long lulls of inactivity are suddenly punctuated by a rapid volley of ideas. Vacations come and go. Semesters end. We write to each other from work, from home, on weekends, in the evenings. As I sit here writing this essay, the “tutorial” is still going. So if I seem fragmented or not quite in control . . .
Citation Information
Type of Source: Book article
Author: David Coogan
Year of Publication: 1998
Title: “Email ‘Tutoring’ as Collaborative Writing” (available online)
Publication: Wiring the Writing Center (available online)
Page Range: 25-43