Writing E-mails

* Pointers in writing E-mail
Despite the popularity of texting and social media, email remains the most common form of written communication in the business world--and the most commonly abused. Too often email messages snap, growl, and bark--as if being concise meant that you had to sound bossy. Not so. Consider this email message recently sent to all staff members on a large university campus: It is time to renew your faculty/staff parking decals. New decals are required by Nov. 1. Parking Rules and Regulations require that all vehicles driven on campus ...

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