Plan/Outline for my Essay

Topic covered in Lecture 2: Is e-mail dead?
I'm going to be focusing more on the side of today's generation and all the new types of media and communication available today that is more popular/efficient/effective than e-mail.

Introduction:
- Start with a quote in relation to the topic
- Introduce the topic I am writing about
- Raise some of the points that I will be writing about and discussing throughout the essay
- Perhaps ask a rhetorical question that will flow on to the next paragraph

Paragraph 1:
Go into detail about the history of e-mail.
-What year did it take off? Perhaps go into history of the internet and how long it took for e-mail to be introduced
- How long have I been using e-mail for?

Paragraph 2:
The convenience of e-mail for things such as:
- Businesses, personal reasons, job applications, cheap, easy to use, fairly instant.
- What do I use e-mail for?

Paragraph 3:
Problems with e-mail and some disadvantages
- Spam
- Viruses
- Cyber bullying, etc

Paragraph 4:
Other forms of convenient communication such as:
- Myspace
- Facebook
- SMS
- The popularity of these new forms of communication with the generation of today.

Conclusion
- Some up all my main points
- Draw a strong conclusion
- Possibly finish with a quote or something relatively interesting.

Websites:
http://www.360east.com/?p=196

http://email.about.com/cs/spamgeneral/a/email_is_dead.htm

http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2008/05/01/i-email-dead/
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