How Do You Use Proper Email Etiquette When Writing To Your College Professor Or University Professor?
If you’re a college student, you’ve probably emailed a professor. Hopefully, you already knew these simple steps to send a respectful email that won’t get you on your prof’s bad side. Use your college or university email. This marks the message as legitimate and not spam. It also gives the prof an idea of who’s sending the message. It also saves you from looking uncouth to your prof because of your off-color personal email username. (I once had a student whose address was ‘bootiephantum1985@mail.com’. Using an email address like that is not a way to make a positive impression on your professor or anyone else for that matter.) Address your professor directly; don’t just launch straight into a request. Examples: ‘Dear Dr. Smith’, ‘Hi, Dr. Jones’, ‘Dr. Zimmerman, I hope all’s well with you…’ If your college or university email address doesn’t use your full last name (in other words, it uses your initials or some other abbreviation of your name), then make sure your first sentence identi
