As the director of graduate writing support programs, I was recently asked to give a webinar about email writing to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in my university’s Accelerate2Industry ...

Many email marketers consider the subject line to be the single most important factor in an email campaign’s success. I’m not sure I would go quite that far, but it is a key factor in whether your ...

With the start of the new year, you may be thinking about making a career change. According to Glassdoor, January is the month employees are most likely to think about changing jobs, likely resulting ...

We rely heavily on email to communicate with colleagues, clients, vendors, etc. Some emails are far too long, stringing paragraph after paragraph together, while others are too brusque, while some are ...

Five days before the release of the first iPad, James Murdoch, a high-ranking executive at News Corp., exchanged a flurry of emails with Steve Jobs. Murdoch and Jobs couldn’t reach an agreement that ...

Good writing skills are essential to advance in the U.S. military — and there’s one technique military leaders follow to make their emails clear, concise, and compelling. Now, what I just wrote is an ...

Myra Deshmukh worked at Amazon for over a decade and taught a business writing course to other employees. She shares seven tips for improving email communication, including being concise and avoiding ...

Inside each of us there’s a little efficiency guru who views every single email within a larger matrix of all the stuff we could be focusing on: the big deadline that needs to be met, the presentation ...

If there is anything that’s guaranteed to send your nerves into overdrive, it’s sitting at your computer, figuring out how to follow-up on something you needed, well, yesterday. Much of business ...

You’ve been waiting on an answer from a colleague for days. You’ve popped back into his inbox with a few general follow-up messages — but still, all you’ve heard in return is crickets. Your first ...