Wk 7:Q1 | Creating an effective, professional email

Wk 7:Q1 | Creating an effective, professional email

Create an effective, professional email. The specifications are:

1.

Parameters

· You are sending an email to your boss regarding the new operational processes

· Whom should you CC?

· Whom should you BCC?

· What do you do about a subject line and the other elements?

Names, titles, and other elements are your choice

2

Include appropriate format elements

· This should be a FORMAL email. Be careful about being too ‘friendly’ and casual. This is a professional, business email communication

· Do not use bullets

· Do not use graphics or any other enhancements

· This early stage is for you to hone your writing skills, including how to separate content into paragraphs, recognize inductive and deductive elements, recognize tone and sentence structure, and other elements we have discussed.

· Your email should include enough content for ONE STANDARD 8 ½ x 11 PAGE

· Use the form below

· DO NOT include the guidelines section with your submission

· Pay careful to typos, grammar, spelling, etc.

· 11 point black font

· At the end of your email, include a paragraph or two that defines how and why you made certain decisions regarding the design of your email.

Email

Copy this table into a new Word document and create your email and design decisions

Email

W7:A7 PT 2. | Definition of how and why you made certain decisions regarding the design of your email. (the more I see of the elements you considered (bias, ethnocentrism, inductive and deductive, communication paths, culture, netiquette, and on and on), the higher your grade will be.

Consider this:

It’s easy to write emails when you don’t know what you don’t know about appropriate format and content. It seems simple!

And yet….., as you learn about all the pitfalls, considerations, format options, and the myriad other details of communications, the more difficult it becomes! SO much to consider. SO hard to avoid making mistakes (even if you don’t see them!)

*I am always astonished at how many companies allow new or untrained employees to correspond with customers, staff members, etc, without ensuring they have had some training or assessment in this area. There is so much at stake! Everyone wants to do a good job, of course, but how many are actually trained to do so and to represent the company and employees appropriately?

Pt 2