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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by kristjansson on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:41PM (#12573468)
This is a far bigger problem than some here might think. I write emails now on the assumption that the recipient might read the first two sentences, skim the first two paragraphs, and ignore the rest.
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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by beardicus on Saturday September 24, 2016 @10:34PM (#12573606)
They should teach this in business school. I never write my boss an email more than three sentences long. I never ask two questions in one email, unless I don't mind one of them being ignored.
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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by kwhitefoot on Sunday September 25, 2016 @06:57AM (#12574803)
Surely they do teach just that?

Whenever I write a report I always put the summary first because that is all that anyone who trusts me needs to read. The rest is supporting information and extended arguments in favour of the proposition that I make in the summary together with some notes about why alternatives are no good.

Of course, I never went to business school, I'm an engineer who started as a physicist.

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