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E-mail etiquette guide

Wed, 2011-03-30 17:03 -- John Hawks

This etiquette guide from Nature Education is enormously useful for students: "How to send a professional e-mail to a professor".

I could not possibly count the number of "Hey, John" e-mails I've gotten from undergraduates who were never taught any better. I'm not an e-mail snob, but some do get answered much more promptly than others.

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