Question

The advantages of e-mail communication.

The first thing most of us do when we get up in the morning is to turn on the computer and check for e-mail messages. This has become a part of our daily routine. We take it for granted that this has been an age-old practice and don't pause to think that it is a product of recent technological revolution. It is a wonder how we ever survived without it. The advantages of e-mail communication are many, and the chief among them are its speed, low cost, and convenience.

Speed is the obvious advantage. Just as our planes, trains, and automobiles are moving ever faster, so are our modes of communication. We can send e- mail around the world in a matter of minutes with no more effort than it takes to press a few keys on the computer. It is this speed that has led to our calling regular mail "snail mail."

E-Mail has also the advantage of being inexpensive. Many people have access to e-mail for free through their work or school. If some people may pay for e-mail through an online service, there is no increase in cost relative to the number of messages sent. It is the same price to send one message to one person as it is to send messages back and forth all day or to a hundred people. Finally, if we consider the costs saved in long-distance phone bills in addition to cost saved in postage, most e-mail users come out ahead.

There is no question that e-mail is convenient. It allows us to send the same message to many people at the same time with little more effort than it takes to send a message to one person. When sending multiple copies of a message, we avoid the trouble of photocopying the letter, printing out additional copies, addressing envelopes, and posting the mail. E-mail is also convenient because it lends itself to an informal style that makes composing a message relatively easy; in addition, readers of e-mail tolerate more mistakes than readers of conventional mail, and their tolerance saves us time.

E-Mail thus gives us the ability to send messages with convenience, speed and little expense. In not too distant a future, "snail mail" is likely to become obsolete, and one can already hear the bell toll for the US Postal Services.

Please answer the following Questions from above essay.

1. What is the topic of the essay?

2. What is the position taken by the writer on the topic?

3. Does the essay have a plan of development? If so, describe the plan.

4. Imagine you are the author of the essay. Take a reader curious to know how the essay developed through the pre-writing stage of the essay.

5. What are the three parts of the essay?

6. How does the essay hook the reader?

7. What is the first supporting point? What details does the writer give in support of the point?

8. What is the second supporting point? What details does the writer give in support of the point?

9. What is the third supporting point? What details does the writer give in support of the point?

10. What method of organization does the writer use to organize the material in the essay?

11. How does the essay conclude?

12. Why doesn't the writer discuss the disadvantages of e-mail communication in the essay?

Answer 1

1). The topic of essay is the advantages of E-mail.

2). The writer is convinced that E-mail has many advantages. He has just mentioned positive aspects of e-mail communication.

3). No the essay does not have any plan of development.

5). Three parts of essay are the introduction, the body and the conclusion.

7). The first supporting point is the speed of the E-mail. He supports his points by mentioning the fact that email can be sent and received within in minutes. Regular form of communication take much longer as compared to this.

8). Second supporting point is it's cost efficiency. He States that many people grt free access to emailing. Even those who have to pay a little can send mails all day of once at the same price.

9). The third supporting point is the convenience. He says it allows us to send messages to many people at once convinient. Composing message in email is relatively easier. And readers tolerate more mistakes hence saving time.

10). He has used different paragraphs for introducing, firtf supporting point, second supporting point, thirty supporting point and finally for the conclusion.

11). Essay concludes with a possibility if email services taking over normal postal services in the future.

12). Writer doesn't discuss the disadvantages of email communication in the essay may be because he wants to promote email communication system.