Gordon Byrd, a recent graduate from UNC Pembroke’s MA in English Education program, has had an article, “The Genre of Scams," published in Xchanges, journal that publishes work by undergraduate and graduate students in the field of Writing Studies The paper was originally written in Dr. Teagan Decker’s Rhetorical Analysis class. It investigates the genre of scam emails through the lens of rhetorical analysis, analyzing a particular example in order to determine what rhetorical elements constitute a scam email and what makes one successful or unsuccessful. You can read it here.