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Email Writing Tips: Communicate Effectively

Presented by Carol Emmer at Tutt Library Lunch and Learn April 13, 2006

Email Productivity Tips

Five Fast Email Productivity Tips
Gives good advice regarding email management techniques so as to free up more time for work or study.
http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/15/five-fast-email-productivity-tips/

Email Netiquette

Ten Tips for Effective E-Mail
Gives 10 tips for writing effective email, including consideration of purpose, audience, tone and font.
http://mindtools.com/email.html

Email Etiquette
Gives 32 quick tips for using email effectively within a business setting in order to create a productive
relationship between sender and recipient.
http://emailreplies.com

Effective Email
This tipsheet was written by Computing Services at the University of Bath and discusses the importance of being
courteous, succinct and purposeful with choice of attachments.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/email/email-basic.shtml

Email Etiquette
This tipsheet was written by the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at
UCSD and gives examples of of email text Do's and Don'ts.
http://www-irps.ucsd.edu/resources/cccr_exploration7.php

College/University Links Addressing Audience, Content, Tone, Mechanics and Privacy

Email Etiquette
Written by the Writing Center at Purdue University, this handout discusses the issue of flaming
and which topics might best resolved outside of email.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_emailett.html

Memo Writing
Written by the Writing Center at Purdue University, this handout provides examples of well written memos.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_memo.html

Netiquette
From the Barnard Career Development Center, this fact sheet provides tips for writing professional
email as well as links to creating a professional image on the job.
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/ocd/factsheets/netiquette.htm

What You Need to Know About Email Correspondence
From the Liberal Arts Career Services at the University of Texas, this help sheet stresses the
importance of using appropriate and professional tone.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/lacs/resumes_and_more/correspondence/need_to_know/

Communicate Professionally
Originally written for staff training and organizational development purposes, this handout
discusses the importance of creating a professional impression and maintaining a professional response
in all forms of email correspondence.
http://www.library.yale.edu/training/netiquette/postscript.html

Email Etiquette
Written by the Writing Center at Grand Valley State University, this handout stresses appropriate
use of rhetoric and tone and avoidance of slang and informality in professional emails.
http://www.gvsu.edu/forms/wc/email%20etiquette.pdf

Professional Dress and Etiquette
From the University of Memphis Career and Employment Services, this handout gives examples
of grammatically correct email texts.
http://saweb.memphis.edu/ces/students/stud_guide/sgn_dressetiquette.htm

Applying for Jobs and Graduate Schools

"How To" Guides from the Career Center at Colorado College
The writing rules found in the "How To" Guides apply to email application, as well.
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/careercenter

Professional Writing Handouts and Resources
The Writing Center at Purdue University has provided tips for a well written application.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/index.html

Course Related Emails

Both of the following articles discuss establishing healthy, professional boundaries for course level email communication.

Glater, Jonathan D. "To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me." New York Times, 21 February 2006.
Database on-line. Available from EBSCO Academic Search Premiere. Accessed 12 April 2006.

Student Email: Issues and Solutions
http://tep.uoregon.edu/technology/communication/heavyemail.html

Facebook, Data Mining, Privacy Isues

"Facebook" entry in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook


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