Consider the following email from a student to a professor
“I have one quick question. How it is that I can receive a D on the first exam, a C on the second exam and end up with a D as a midterm grade? I can’t afford to have Com 101 drop my grade point average any lower, and this is the only class I’m having problems with. I refuse to take this class another semester just because I want to move on. Do you suggest me finding an alternative major or what? You need to tell me what to do in my situation. rich@camelot.bradley.edu
The authors of your textbook suggest that this email dramatizes one of the downsides of email as a medium of communication which is ____________.
A. email is always subject to misinterpretation
B. email has a high degree of rehearsability
C. that it is often easy to lose one’s sense of place, resulting in more direct and “on-record” messages
D. “never hit send when you are angry”
E. both A and B are correct
ANS: c
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