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Finish your Cultural Quilt!

Improve your email skills with exercises on common grammar mistakes, email etiquette, and writing practice. Enhance your communication in various settings with this comprehensive guide.

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Finish your Cultural Quilt!

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  1. Finish your Cultural Quilt! • You have 30 minutes – when you go to lunch, they must be turned in. • Don’t forget to turn in your rubric as well. • Put your name on everything.

  2. Grammar Exercise • Their/They’re/There • Other commonly mixed up words • Please begin working on the assignment you were given.

  3. Email Etiquette (Manners, Politeness) • Email Address – PLEASE PLEASE make it professional! qtpie23@gmail.comgotthatcurvya**@hotmail.com mainnig**18@gmail.comcash$deonte@yahoo.com Jane.Doe@gmail.comayeganegi@gmail.com dsmith85@yahoo.comamy.m@hotmail.com

  4. Email Etiquette • Subject • Salutation • Purpose • Spelling, Punctuation, and Capitalization • Closing • Magic Words!

  5. Formal Emails Greetings such as… Dear sir… To whom it may concern… Good afternoon… Closings such as… Sincerely… Best wishes… Respectfully… • Audience: Bosses. Teachers/Professors. Elders. Strangers. • Purpose: Work/School/Business Related • Language: Formal and polite • Avoid… • Slang • Contractions

  6. Informal Emails • Audience: Friends. Close family members. Peers of same age. • Purpose: Conversation. Checking in. Questions. • Language: Informal and casual. • You might use slang. • You might use contractions. • You might be more familiar. • Greetings such as… • Hi! • Hey… • What’s up… • Closings such as… • See you soon… • Thanks… • Love…

  7. Semi-Formal Emails • Audience: Older relatives. Teachers. Colleagues/co-workers. • Purpose: Questions. Information. Conversation. • Language: Somewhere in the middle. • You might use slang – not too much. • Contractions are ok. • Greetings such as… • Hello… • Dear… • Hi… • Closings such as… • Thanks… • Talk to you soon… • Sincerely…

  8. What type of email? What’s a good salutation? How would you close? You need to ask your best friend’s mom if she found your wallet at her house.

  9. What type of email? What’s a good salutation? How would you close? You would like to set up a meeting with your English teacher so you can ask her some questions about an upcoming project.

  10. What type of email? What’s a good salutation? How would you close? You are emailing three other students in your government class about the group project you’re doing together. You want to let them know what work you have done so far, and ask them for some feedback on the writing you have done.

  11. What type of email? What’s a good salutation? How would you close? Your best friend had a REALLY bad day. You want to check in on them and encourage them.

  12. What type of email? What’s a good salutation? How would you close? Your neighbor gave you the name of someone who might be interested in hiring you for a summer job. You want to introduce yourself and let them know that you are interested in working for them.

  13. Email and Writing Practice – Due by Friday at 2 pm • COMPLETE SENTENCES ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE. • Answer all parts and give plenty of details. • Work on your commonly misused words. • Practice good email etiquette.

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