{"id":17621,"date":"2016-09-01T21:33:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:33:48","slug":"academic-habits-lifestyle-preliminary-ideas-about-successful-email-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/academic-habits-lifestyle-preliminary-ideas-about-successful-email-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic habits, Lifestyle:  preliminary ideas about successful email communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor gives a few ideas about email habits.<\/h1>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use email much; at times I&#8217;ve used it more.<\/p>\n<p>Email is a type of communication that, because it&#8217;s recorded, perhaps needs special preparation before engaging.  Here are some hints I find helpful:<\/p>\n<p><u>Non-routine emails<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the email isn&#8217;t necessary, don&#8217;t write it (unless it&#8217;s a leisure email to a friend).<\/li>\n<li>If its topic is emotionally affecting at all, wait (at least) half a day before composing the email.<\/li>\n<li>If phone contact is approved, it might well be better:  you can always email to follow up.<\/li>\n<li>Conversely, you can offer phone contact in an introductory email.<\/li>\n<li>If it&#8217;s a question, boil it down to one that will be as easy to answer as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Routine emails<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If it&#8217;s a simple answer or confirmation, perhaps tell it in the subject, so the person may not even need to open it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Email is a wide-reaching topic; I&#8217;ll be following up with further posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/resource\/636\/1\/\">english.purdue.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor gives a few ideas about email habits. I don&#8217;t use email much; at times I&#8217;ve used it more. Email is a type of communication that, because it&#8217;s recorded, perhaps needs special preparation before engaging. Here are some hints &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/academic-habits-lifestyle-preliminary-ideas-about-successful-email-communication\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic habits, Lifestyle:  preliminary ideas about successful email communication<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,181],"tags":[1853,1854],"class_list":["post-17621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-habits","category-lifestyle","tag-email-habits","tag-hints-about-email-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17621"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17631,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions\/17631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}