(Spooner and Yancey’s meta-essay explaining this model actually takes the form of a two-sided dialogue on the page.42) Instead of accepting the idea that students should learn through imitation of the media objects produced by more rhetorically expert superiors, Spooner and Yancey posit that students should be engaged in answering their actual correspondents rather than responding to their instructors in artificial, monological, discourse situations. In their minds, e-mail bears little relation to a bounded artifact because it can assume a number of polymorphous forms.