Avoid the Email Train Wreck: Five Tips for Writing Professional Emails
Avoid the Email Train Wreck: Five Tips for Writing Professional Emails by Danielle Wolf, Guest Author on March 23, 2014 As college students, we are all focusing on that next phase in our lives. This can be different for each and every one of us. Yet, whether we are on the track towards social, teaching, health care, or other professional careers and our next step to success in the “real world,” it is important to have a good understanding of how to write a professional email. If you don’t, you could be at-risk for a trainwreck of negative responses (for example, you could miss out on an internship opportunity, be the subject of your professors’ Facebook posts, begin to notice that your boss is avoiding you, or try to make important points in meetings only to have your supervisor ignore you). Email etiquette is important. Thus, as we apply for jobs, graduate school, or communicate with our professors, it is important to show these...
