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Professor Holtz’s Email Policies

Professor Holtz’s Email Policies

Purpose

Your electronic mail (email) communication represents your professional character. As such, your email communications during this course are required to follow these guidelines:

Subject

  • The course designator, course number, and lab section number (value is greater than 1). For example:

    Replace the course number (1521) with your course number and the section number (3) with your lab section number.

  • If you are not a student, then the subject should be appropriate to the content of the body of the email.

Greeting

Appropriate examples include: “Hello” or “Good day” followed by “Professor Holtz” or “Mr. Holtz”.

Content

Respectful, concise, professional communication:

  • Use NO emoticons
  • Use proper grammar, including:
    • Complete sentences
    • Proper capitalization
    • Proper punctuation
    • Correct spelling
  • Use as few words and be as clear as possible
  • Content must concern course

If you have a question about an assignment, it should be specific. Asking, “I’m lost. What am I supposed to do?” is not acceptable.

Author: Steven J Holtz

Email: sholtz@d.umn.edu

Created: Thu 30 Dec 2021 15:36:35 CST