Overview
- Professor's instructions:
- please respond to the following questions in a minimum of 350 words for all of the questions total (you may write much more!)
- Please number your responses. You do not have to re-write the questions.
- In addition to your opinion and personal experiences, include concepts that were discussed in the textbook in your responses.
- You may find this short article useful. It's about how to write emails to professors. https://medium.com/@lportwoodstacer/how-to-email-your-professor-without-being-annoying-af-cf64ae0e408
*You may not make use of ChatGPT or other Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools*
This chapter discusses e-mail as one of the developments of the early Internet. Reflect on your use of e-mail and answer the following questions.
- When/why email was invented (**Older editions of the textbook include this info. If you have the current edition, this info is not presente, so you may skip this part of the question) ? Do people use email more/less often now to communicate?
- When do you use e-mail?
- What can you say over e-mail that you wouldn’t say in person? Where’s the dividing line?
- What sort of email etiquette are you aware of, especially when addressing your instructors?