Monthly Archives for October 2014


Quality Student E-mail

Over the past few weeks, I have read a number of articles—and the comments that followed them—bemoaning the poor quality of student e-mails. The complaints include lack of appropriate salutations, informality, poor grammar, arrogance, disrespect, meaningless or nonexistent subject lines, and so forth. Yet, during the past week, as I read e-mail from my students, […]