Rick Winter - Teacher at JA Back Door, Author, School Board, and Life Long Student
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First Email

Purpose: All students are required to have an email account to communicate with me. Email is one of the major communication tools in business and education. 80% of employers say that high school students need to improve their written communications. We'll be working on this skill through your daily emails to me.

This is the procedure you should use for every email to me unless I give you different instructions.

  1. Open up Microsoft Word.
  2. In Word, type answer to one of the two questions in one or more complete sentences.
    bulletTell me why you think it is important to have no spelling or grammar errors in your emails to your teacher, someone you work with, or your boss.
    OR
    bulletWhat do you think that 80% of employers used to make their judgment about high school students' writing ability?
  3. Use Microsoft Word's red squiggly lines (right-click) to correct spelling problems. Use Microsoft Word's green squiggly lines to correct sentence problems. If you use Word, you should have no capitalization errors, no obvious spelling errors, and no punctuation errors.
  4. Start your email program. If you don't have an email account, go to www.hotmail.com or www.gmail.com or another free provider and create a new account. You want to make sure that you can send attachments.
  5. Type in the Subject line: First Email
  6. In the To: box put my email -- see picture below or rswinter(at)jeffco.k12.co.us. Replace (at) with the @ sign.
  7. In the message area, copy and paste what you wrote in Word to the email.
  8. At the bottom of the email, type both your first and last name.
  9. Professional Emails and Grading (10 total points if no errors):
    bulletCorrect Subject: 1 point
    bulletAt bottom of your text: First Name: 1 point; Last Name: 1 point.
    bulletCapital letters at beginning of sentences and for names. - 1 point each error
    bulletWords spelled correctly (use Word first and check for red wavy underlines) - 1 point each error
    bulletProper grammar (use Word first and check for green wavy underlines) - 1 point for each error
    bulletFor this assignment, you must have a complete sentence with ending punctuation and at least one subject and verb.

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