This document provides guidance on email etiquette, including keeping messages clear, concise, and alerting the reader to the subject of the email. It notes the importance of spelling, punctuation, grammar, and an awareness of audience, as well as suggesting no emoticons and a formal font for formal emails. Students are tasked with writing a poem about the dos and dont's of emailing.

2. Why is it important?
Easy to be misunderstood.
We interact more and more
with the spoken word.

3. Audience

4. Unread
Subject
Woohoo! You've read all the messages in your inbox.
Everything else
Clear and concise. Must alert
the reader as to what the mail
is about.
1–25 of many

5. Signature
Formal e mails need your full
name, class and school.

6. More basics
Brief
Reply time
Spelling, punctuation, grammar.
THIS IS SHOUTING!

7. What’s wrong?

8. What’s wrong?

9. Task
In your exhibition groups write a poem.
Include the do’s and don’ts of emailing.
In my magic in box I would place….
No emoticons
An awareness of audience.
Formal font