The following article is basicly alot of what I learned in my 4 years in College. So many things go wrong and things get misunderstood because of the internet and it is truly sad. I hope who ever reads this (weather you are a Communcations Major or not) gets something out of this:
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It’s all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood
By Daniel Enemark | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
from the May 15, 2006 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0515/p13s01-stct.html
Michael Morris and Jeff Lowenstein wouldn’t have recognized each other if they’d met on the street, but that didn’t stop them from getting into a shouting match. The professors had been working together on a research study when a technical glitch inconvenienced Mr. Lowenstein. He complained in an e-mail, raising Mr. Morris’s ire. Tempers flared.
“It became very embarrassing later,” says Morris, when it turned out there had been a miscommunication, “but we realized that we couldn’t blame each other for yelling about it because that’s what we were studying.”
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