Cyber instruments such as email and texting are mainstream method of communication in our lives today. More often, people are prone to use email or text to communicate as they are more convenient and provides constant contact with everyone.
As emailing and texting becomes more prevalent, the way we talk in person or on phones are perfectly emulated in cyber communication. In other words, we write as if we are talking in real life. However, the only difference is, we don't need to interfere completely with the recipient's activities. We have the favor of multi-tasking when we cyber communicate.
Although cyber communication is expedient and requires no sweat, message senders must taken into consideration who they are talking to. If we email or text our friends and family members, we can write as if we are casually talking but that shouldn't be the case for writing to those who we do not know us or stands as a higher authority.
Today in class we learned that the email etiquette should always include subject, greeting and correct grammar, punctuation and spelling. Our instructor also recommended that we respond back even if it's just a “thank you- I got it successfully.”
I totally agree- sometimes we get too caught up in conveniently and rapidly emailing and texting that we forget to capitalize certain words or make spelling mistakes that convey informality and clumsiness. Those small yet apparent mistakes invent our ethos as a writer, and ultimately as a person.
This tip of writing emails that invents positive ethos comes in handy especially when contacting professors in college who does not know you personally due to large class size.
For next time...I will proof read once more before I hit that “send” button as I surely want my invented ethos to position me in a positive light.
And your emails show that you've internalized this -- thanks for your fabulous email etiquette, Sally.
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