Still waiting for an answer?? Bryan A. Garner shows how to write a perfect e-mail and earn your collegues attention.
- Stick to standard capitalization and punctuation;
- Get straight to the point (politely, of course);
- Be brief — but not too brief;
- Plot out what happened, and when;
- Add a short but descriptive subject line;
- Copy people judiciously.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/write_e-mails_that_people_wont.html
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