Janet has some useful advice to students following the New York Times piece on emails from students to professors that a bunch of Sb'ers have already commented on. My favorite has to be,
"How U doin?" is generally too informal an opening for an email to your professor.
Yup. And "dude" isn't the best way to open an e-mail either.
Most of the time my students are great on e-mail. Sometimes however ...
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