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The Email Writing Assignment

This assignment has three parts:

First, revise one of the emails that you sent to the class mailing list responding to previously assigned readings. Your revisions should be based on our readings and discussion regarding good email "etiquette" and style. (If you haven't completed an email message to the class mailing list, we should talk).

Second, write an email in which you ask a hypothetical "boss" (an office supervisor, a principal, etc.) to schedule a meeting to discuss an issue important to both you and your boss.

Third, write a one page memo from you to me where you explain the revisions you made to your previously sent email and where you discuss the choices you made with your email to a hypothetical boss. You will send me this memo in a third email message as an attachment.

Here are some things to think about:

• You will send all three of these email messages to emailassign@stevendkrause.com. Note that you will send me three separate messages. This is part of the assignment! Do not "combine" them into one message.
• Obviously, you will want these email messages to be examples of "good" email messages, based on our readings and class discussions.
• Be sure to attach your memo in a format that I can read-- an MS Word file, an RTF file, or a PDF. We will talk about how to do this in class, but attaching a readable file to an email message is part of the assignment.
• We will have a peer review session on February 3. To make this work, please bring print-outs of the email messages you've composed in draft form.
• The final version needs to be emailed to me by class time on February 10.