Hey all writ310'ers!
So this weeks assignment was about writing e-mails and how formal you should be. I think it was interesting to see how different texts can be and how different the "feeling" in an e-mail can be. When you send a mail to a professor it should be formal and there are many ways of making it look professional. You have to think about the length of the text, if what you are writing is informative and necessary to put in the text. I know that I sometimes write my emails too short and I will definitely start working on being more proffesional in my e-mails to my teachers!
Hope you are ready for a new week!
/ Athina
Yes, You have some great points on making a productive yet concise email. Sometimes an email is meant to be long and very informative and other times it is meant to be short and to the point. Depending on your audience will depend on how long your email should be and what the content is. I agree with the statement that if you are writing to a professor then you should be more formal as opposed to writing to your friend back home. There are ways to make them professional that we are being taught in class and other ways to make them informal.
SvarSlettI agree, every email is very different depending on who the email is to and the relationship you have with the person! Its hard to judge how casual versus how formal you should be with some emails, because usually when it is a professor it should be more formal and with a friend much more causal. I've never thought so in depth about emails before, but it is definitely important because it is a part of how the world perceives us!
SvarSlettHi Athina!
SvarSlettI strongly agree with you on this e-mail topic because I never really took it to heart about how e-mails were conveyed and the context behind them all. Obviously when writing a professional e-mail you don't want to use the tone you would use to a friend. I enjoyed the lesson on e-mail because its something were going to need to really understand how to do properly.