Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Emails, Texts, Memos, and Letters

These forms of communications are crucial to everyday life and mastering all of them is important but far from easy. The amount of emails people recieve each day can be astonishing. Some get put off for days and some are read quicker than others. Some are put in the trash before they are read. Without opening the email a subject line is all you have to read as well as the senders email. The emails that get read have the most urgent or most meaningful heading to the recipient. When the email is opened, content will vary dramatically based on the sender and the situation and topic. One thing I need to do better in my emailes is review the content because on more than one occasion I will type the email and send immediately and have forgotten material. That one email response turns into two unnecessary responses or questions if I've forgotten to ask of something. Reviewing emails is something I need to do more and pay more attention to what I am writing. Emails have been more of a casual thing up till now and as I get older and emails become different and addapt into a more frequent form of professional communication we need to be more conscious of the content. It doesn't look good to a boss if he is getting multiple emails on one topic or to a client. Rereading emails and making sure everything you want to ask or say is included at the fullest. I think this is all most essential and then comes the overall layout. The layout is also dependent on content. Not as important for quick back and forth but huge for emails with a lage amount of infomation that needs to flow in an east-to-read manner. OEmails are definitely one that needs most attention by people and this also would cover letters for for the most part.

1 comment:

  1. Matt,

    I like how you highlight just how important the subject line is in an email. Far to often I see writers who do not think twice about what they insert in that field.

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