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A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email - Summary
Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
ducky@webfoot.com
Here, then, are my rules of thumb for good email style:
- Provide your audience with adequate context:
- Use meaningful subject lines
- Quote the email to which you are responding
- Avoid pronouns
- Be aware of page layout issues. Try to use:
- Short paragraphs
- Lines under seventy-five characters
- Email under twenty-five lines
- Find replacements for gestures and intonation:
- Smileys
- Asterisks
- Capital letters
- Typed-out vocalizations
- Whitespace
- Lower-case letters
- Creative punctutation
Hopefully these suggestions will be useful to you as you start your
emailing career! :-)
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Ducky
Modified 10 Dec 1994 - added one line, money link
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