- Always use a subject line. Otherwise, I can never find your email again, ever! Oh, and the subject should pertain to the content of your email, not you.
- Don't send a blank email with an attachment. It's thoughtless and there is a good chance that I will have no idea why you are sending me this document.
- Do not address your emails to "teacher" or "miss." If you don't know my name yet, don't email me.
- Do not write an email that says "I'll be there!" Where? When? What for?
- Always, always, always respond to email from your lecturers. If you do not confirm your meeting with me, I will not keep the time free! (frighteningly, that rhymes)
- If you send me a document, it's like handing it in to my mailbox. Put your name in the document!
(edited 7 december 2006)
I totally agree, esp. the 'always respond to your lecturers'. This is so abundantly clear to me that I once had great fun leaving the office five minutes before a meeting time that I had suggested to a student, and he had not confirmed. It was, I figured, about bleeding time somebody taught this youngster some manners.
ReplyDeletePlease add this rule: "Get an e-mail address that does not use any names of pets or Star Wars characters to identify your person. Instead, go with your actual name if you want anyone that's as busy and important as me to read your irrelevant, self-absorbed e-mails."