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Subject:email use survey From:Gary Beason <bubba -at- EXPERT -dot- CC -dot- PURDUE -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 2 Apr 1993 13:30:35 EST
My technical writing students are conducting research about how email
discussions differ from face-to-face discussions. Please send your response to
bubba -at- expert -dot- cc -dot- purdue -dot- edu
and to not to Techwr-l. Your responses will be kept anonymous;
neither you nor your company's name will be used in the class report
for which this research will be used.
Thank you for your cooperation.
--Gary Beason
---Purdue University
----bubba -at- expert -dot- cc -dot- purdue -dot- edu
How do you use email? (rank in order of importance with 1=most important)
for announcements within your organization
for memos within your organization
for discussing problems with others outside
your company
for planning projects/discussions within your company
other:
other:
other:
Do you react to ideas presented on email differently than ideas
presented in person? (Put a Y below the appropriate ranking.)
more as less
seriously seriously seriously
1 2 3 4 5
Do you think your ideas are regarded more seriously through email than in
person? (Put a Y below the appropriate ranking.)
more as less
seriously seriously seriously
1 2 3 4 5
How often do you communicate through email with people you rarely or
never see? (Put Y by the appropriate response.)
always
often
occasionally
rarely
never
How often do you notice the writer of an email message is female/male?
(Put Y by the appropriate response.)
always
often
occasionally
rarely
never
Do you think that you or your ideas judged differently on email than
in person? How?