How Do You Write A Professional Email?
When you’re writing an email, you really don’t want to seem like an idiot. It’s not expected that you write as if you got your English Degree from Yale for people to think you are intelligent, but you sure don’t want to write as if you got your GED while you were imprisoned at Green Haven. Generally in a business people won’t care about minor grammatical errors like changing tense, comma faults, or disagreeing pronouns, but they expect a certain degree of professionalism or they won’t take you seriously. It doesn’t take a genius to write a good letter; emails should be no different. One of the worst practices is not capitalizing “i” and inappropriately abbreviating. Nothing makes me angrier than when I see a sentence like “wut r u up 2?” or “i h8 ur face.” This kind of short hand might come in handy when you’re giving instructions to your Battlefield 1942 team, in the middle of an intense World of Warcraft raid, or trying to type while eating a sandwich but it has no place in a profess
