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Email Etiquette Email Etiquette
Email has made communication very much easier, and also a lot less formal. Still, there are some basic guidelines you should try to keep to.
Guidelines
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If you are writing to a person for the first time, always indicate from where or from whom you obtained his or her email address.
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Indicate the subject of the email in the Subject box.
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If you are forwarding an email exchange you have had with other people, only include the relevant parts. Don’t make people have to scroll through pages of irrelevant information.
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If you are responding to a series of questions, it may be easier to copy each question and then provide your response below. This is neater than simply hitting the reply button and having the original questions included further below.
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