Kress/Hefland reflection

The main point that I wanted to address is the issue of formality of emails. As Steph points out, there is not a true format or hint of professionalism to emails. In daily life, email seems to be unavoidable, and because of the growing amount and need to vocalize via email, there does indeed need to be some sort of business or specified formality to email layout. This, then, in turn, makes me wonder how far the formality can be pushed. Take for instance, this blog. We can write as formally or and informally as we need/please because it is not considered a professional or formatted type of writing, but if this were a business-oriented blog or even email, then there has to be some level of formatting set in place. In this case, I wonder who gets to decide what is the correct way to write an email. Would is be more related to MLA style writing for essays and/or papers, or would it mimick the more accepted styles of writing paper letters? Or, in the case that neither of these forms of writing can be modified to fit that of writing blogs, emails or any other type of internet writing, would some intellectual or professor somewhere get to create another form of accepted format for writing. I feel that, if yet another form of writing format is created, too many students, or people in general, will get completely confused as to what style teachers will want for papers or, maybe by that point there will not be physical papers, but rather, email/blog style electronic 'papers'. As of now, some students seems to have difficulties switching between MLA and APA formats when going from or between diciplines. In reality, how many formats for writing can there be before one type dominates all the others and will that someday be an electronic format for writing and will paper formats become rarer and rarer until totally gone?