1. You had been really struggling in Professor Smith’s class, so you stayed up very late to write the mid-term essay hoping that you would do well enough to improve your grade in the class. Your graded essay however earned a D and the professor made very few comments on the paper. Email the professor. Attach it as a pdf.
2. One week after being hired, you learn that your favorite grandmother in Chicago is in the hospital near death. It’s 9 pm and you have to leave town immediately to reach her, but you know you’ll miss work in the morning. Email your employer. Attach it as a pdf.
Send the email to: mrsmillerpayton @ gmail.com
Use these tips to help you create a professional email:
- Have a signature with "Thank you," "Sincerely," "Take it easy," etc. and your name.
- Greet with Hi, Hello, Greetings, etc.
- Be sure your name is correct in the From field.
- Be sure you completed the Subject field
- Do not use all capital or all lower-case letters.
- Spell check.
- Notice difference between “reply to sender” and “reply to all”
- Don't forward chain emails.
- Use BCC when sending to multiple people.
- When forwarding or replying to an email, erase unnecessary information from the post you are responding to.
- Re-read to check your tone.
- Know how to save and send a PDF attachment.
