The mechanics of better e-mails
What is the one type of writing that most of us likely do the most? Composing e-mail messages. Sree Sreenivasan has a few suggestions you can follow to make your e-mails more reader-friendly. In particular, I like this one:
Don’t write just "Hello" or "Hi" in a subject line. Give people a reason not to ignore your message. Use your subject lines well and be as specific as possible. If you met someone at a convention, for example, write, "SPJ convention follow-up" or something similar. Just because someone met you in person doesn’t mean he or she will always remember you when you send an e-mail for the first time. A friend who’s the executive editor of a major daily often copies the entire first paragraph of his message into his subject line. I don’t recommend that for everyone, but it sure is hard to miss his messages.
I have a friend who almost always puts "From Joe" in the subject line. (The name has been changed to protect the guilty.) As if I can’t read the From line in the e-mail header.
Roy Jacobsen
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