I formatted this section to where each email is screenshotted and annotated with areas needing improvement. I also took note of small success in areas where I did well and implemented strategies.
Yes it is for a book club and to my family but I intended for it to take the formatting of a formal product promotion and offer. I went back and annotated this email and found it interesting. I have been using this email as a sort of baseline skill check for my email writing development in this class.
(1/24/20)
I was offered a position that I held in semester's past as a mentor. This email actually took me a long time to draft up because I kept overthinking the message and didn't want to seem unappreciative. Coincidentally, the message that got directly to the point seemed to be the most sincere. Beginning to realize that e-mails follow Occam's Razor, less is the right way.Professor
(2/04/20)
Per the markup in the photo below, I'm picking up that short, succinct emails are the most efficient. I also realized that I do have a bad habit of getting too wordy, especially in a formal communication setting.
(2/13/20)
I noticed that my wordiness picked backup in this case. However, I think that my bad habit of overexplaining gets distinctively worse when I know there is a possible negative perception towards me as a student. My mentality is that I'd rather overexplain myself and clarify where I went wrong, rather than my professor think I don't care about the class. Moving forward, I need to keep in mind that even the best explanations don't need to be long.
