How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It

Re:How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It by tokenadult on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @05:32PM (#573046)

Search YC

http://searchyc.com/How+to+Revise+an+Email

is your friend for finding duplicate submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=562447

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Re:How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It by muhamm on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @07:10PM (#573184)

If this is a duplicate, it's one that a lot of people could benefit from.

Summary:

1. Delete redundancies. 2. Use numbers and specifics instead of adverbs and adjectives. 3. Add missing context. 4. Focus on the strongest argument. 5. Delete off-topic material. 6. Seek out equivocation and remove it. 7. Kill your favorites. 8. Delete anything written in the heat of emotion. 9. Shorten. 10. Give it a day.

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Re:How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It by mark_h on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @09:45PM (#573363)

Summarising even further... note that most of those involve "delete"!

At least, that's what I usually end up doing. The more concise it is, the easier it is to absorb. It's quite sobering how long it can take to get something that concise though.

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Re:How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It by jpwagner on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @08:17PM (#573267)

First 9 are good.

Who has "a day" to give?

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