6 Cs of Writing a Professional Email

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🔥NEW No matter how many new digital means of communications exist, the old-school email still has an important place in professional and personal settings. Those of us who use email regularly know that some errors are really common, like when we forget to add an important attachment, find a silly spelling mistake just after hitting the send button, or send an email without greetings or signature. Another thing is that a lot of our emails remain unnoticed everyday. Most of these situations can be avoided to some extent if we remember and practice the 6 Cs of Writing Emails properly. So here we go: CLEAR: Make the purpose of writing your email clear at the very beginning preferably in the first one or two sentences. Use the subject field as much as possible for that purpose. CONCISE: Body of your email should be concise and constructed with short sentences or the reader may lose motivation to read it. Vanessa van Edwards from Scienceofpeople believes an email should be written under 3 (...) Read more? Sign up for free

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