How to revise e-mail
08 May 2009
Ernest Hemingway once said or wrote, “The first draft of everything is shit.” This truth applies to the genre of writing that most of us probably do most often: e-mail. For tips on improving your own e-mail, read David Silverman’s 10 tips for writing better e-mail. Then read his addendum of tips 11–19. (Hat tip to Alison Wolf at Slaw.ca, who adds her own list of e-mail writing tips.)