Communicative Competencies and Internet Epistolary

The article discusses the problem of online communication in higher education. It describes how digital business correspondence can develop communicative skills in university students. Analysis and systematization were used as review methods. Internet platforms can teach students to communicate in various situations of oral, written, and virtual communication in their professional sphere. By studying text samples from social networks, blogs, and e-mail correspondence, they learn to integrate communicative experience and observe Internet interaction in specific situations. They also learn to navigate in a constantly changing Internet environment and develop critical thinking. The ability to compose epistolary texts of different genres will help them to correspond with any type of communicants on various Internet platforms using appropriate style and nettiquette in social networks, forums, chat rooms, blogs, Internet comments, and e-mail correspondence.