Spooner and Yancey also deny the possibility of “netiquette,” upon which Hawisher and Moran’s argument rests. They make analogies to telephone conversations or channel surfing instead of traditional written compositions. Unfortunately, this approach would make acceptable composing practices extremely difficult to teach, because it assumes there is no “single rhetorical situation,” “coherent set of formal conventions,” or common set of “communicative purposes” to shape a given digital message.