Bull's Eye Business Writing Tips

Tip #375:  Another Email Tip. 

These FREE weekly business writing tips
will help you improve your business writing.

Tip # 375:  Do not leave your subject line blank.  With all of the SPAM today, if you leave the subject line blank, your e-mail may go into the recipient's trash.  Many people, including us at Basic Learning Systems, Inc., scan the subjects of questionable e-mails in order to avoid getting a virus.

Weekly Exercise:

We receive over 200 emails per day.  We encourage you to answer our weekly tips, but please, if you are answering this weekly tip exercise,  identify the tip number in the subject line of your email.

This week’s quiz:

Write true of false regarding email correspondence:

  1. Return emails in the same day you receive them if possible. (True or False)
  2. Do not use capitalization and punctuation in the same way that you would in any other document.  (True or False)
  3. Encourage others to communicate with you by email.  Give them your correct email address - where appropriate, include it on your business card and letterhead.  (True of False)
  4. Do not reproduce a message in full when responding to it, especially if you are posting to a newsgroup. This is hard on the readers and wasteful of resources. Instead, be selective in the parts that you include in your response.  (True or False)

Quote of the week:

“Little things affect little minds.”  (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations)

Answers to this week's quiz:

Answers:

  1. Return emails in the same day you receive them if possible. (True) 
  2. Do not use capitalization and punctuation in the same way that you would in any other document.  (False)
  3. Encourage others to communicate with you by email.  Give them your correct email address - where appropriate, include it on your business card and letterhead.  (True )
  4. Do not reproduce a message in full when responding to it, especially if you are posting to a newsgroup. This is hard on the readers and wasteful of resources. Instead, be selective in the parts that you include in your response.  (True)

To send the above exercise answers to Gloria for her comments and review,  copy the questions,  paste  them into an email, answer them,  and send to Marsha@basic-learning.com.

 

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin 
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

More books on business writing and other business subjects  (available from Amazon.com). 

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