1. E-MAIL Names: Alauanda de Vasconcelos Fernandes Nilfan Fernandes da Silva Júnior Date: 13 September 2010

2. What is E-mail? What types of e-mail do you send and receive more?

3. What is the definition of e-mail? According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: Email or e-mail (also formal electronic mail): is a way of sending messages and data to other people by means of computers connected together in a network.

4. Genre According to Marcuschi: The genres are the texts found in our daily life. They present socio-communicative characteristics defined by style, function, composition and content. To Textual Linguistics, genres include these and all documents produced by users of a language. Along with the chronicles and the tale, we also identify a personal letter, the telephone conversation, email, and many other examples of genres that circulate in our society.

5. Origins The e-mail, or electronic mail, came in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson sent the first message from one computer to another using the program SNDMSG he had just developed. Tomlinson also created the “at” symbol (@) to indicate the location address of each user. Nowadays: MSN Yahoo! Messenger ICQ

6.  Ray Tomlinson – the creator of email

7. Advantages  asynchrony;  high speed;  low or none cost;  the same message can be sent to thousands of people worldwide;  attachment of data;  the message can be archived, printed, rerouted, copied, re-used.

8. Disadvantages  attachment size limitation;  spam/scams and viruses;  the email may go to the wrong address, be copied, modified;  no simultaneous feedback.

9. Spams To: carlita@hotmail.com.brcarlita@hotmail.com.br From: money123@hotmail.com@hotmail.com Date: 20 September 09, 20.54 Subject: Money Congratulations! Get your FREE* $1500 Pottery Barn Gift Card! Please see here to claim your prize! Shop online for hundreds of products including furniture, bedding & bath, and accessories.

10. Informal e-mail To: George Andell From: Jane Hayle Date: 8 September 04, 15.45 Subject: Rehearsal tonight Hi George Sorry to say I’ll be a bit late for tonight’s rehearsal as something’s come up at work and I won’t be able to get away on time. I hope make it by 7.15. J ------------ E.g: Hope 2C U @ party L8R Jo

11. Formal e-mail To: twalton@langschool.co.uktwalton@langschool.co.uk From: jane.hayle@castle.comjane.hayle@castle.com Date: 8 September 04, 15.54 Subject: New textbooks Dear Ms Walton The books you ordered last week are now in stock and awaiting collection. I attach a list of coursebooks currently in stock at the bookshop. Jane Hayle Assistant Manager Castle Bookshop Tel: 0308 949 9438 Fax: 0308 949 9484

12. Task You are the writter: Task 1: Write a formal e-mail for a new company with your interest to work there. Task 2: Write a informal e-mail to your best friend, telling about the party on Monday.

13. Sources: HORNBY, A.S. Oxford Advanced learner’s dictionary of current English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. E-mail. Disponível em: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Acessado em 13/09/2010. E-mail como Gênero Textual usado em Sala de Aula. Disponível em: http://www.webartigos.com/articles/20685/1/O-Email-como- Genero-Textual-na-Sala-de-Aula/pagina1.htm. Acessado em 13/09/2010. E-mail um Novo Gênero Textual. Disponível em: http://www.veramenezes.com/emailgenero.htm. Acessado em 13/09/2010.