The document provides tips for writing effective emails to professors by contrasting an informal, abbreviated email with a more formal, polite email. It advises addressing the professor properly with their title and last name, stating the purpose and request clearly, and signing off respectfully with one's name and class. Proper email etiquette shows respect and is more likely to receive a timely response.
The document provides tips for writing effective emails to professors by contrasting an informal, abbreviated email with a more formal, polite email. It advises addressing the professor properly with their title and last name, stating the purpose and request clearly, and signing off respectfully with one's name and class. Proper email etiquette shows respect and is more likely to receive a timely response.
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The document provides tips for writing effective emails to professors by contrasting an informal, abbreviated email with a more formal, polite email. It advises addressing the professor properly with their title and last name, stating the purpose and request clearly, and signing off respectfully with one's name and class. Proper email etiquette shows respect and is more likely to receive a timely response.
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For your own professional development, please avoid email
messages that look like this:
hey cud u send me my grade thad b gr8
Instead: Dr. Professor X, Would you please send me my current grade in the class?
Thank you, Student Y HGP 110 Essay Exam Tips
5 paragraphs (at least)
Intro: Thesis Statement
Jared Diamond does not adequately support
his argument that agriculture is a mistake. He does not account for the development of agriculture in ways that diversify crops and reduce the risk of failure and famine. He is also inconsistent in the time frames he uses to compare hunter/gatherer and agricultural societies. Finally, he does not account for why people in industrialized societies today live much longer than hunter/gatherer societies. 3 paragraphs of evidence:
1. He does not account for the development of
agriculture in ways that diversify crops and reduce the risk of failure and famine. Evidence
2. Inconsistent in the time frames he uses to compare
hunter/gatherer and agricultural societies. Evidence
3. Does not account for why people in industrialized
societies today live much longer than hunter/gatherer societies. Evidence
Conclusion Avoid:
The Aztecs built an empire in central Mexico. They built many
pyramids. They had a very complex religious and political system. Before their empire they were mercenaries and labor for other cultures. They saw an eagle with a serpent in its beak and built their capital cities. The capital cities were Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. As the Maya civilization began to disintegrate, the Aztecs began to build their empire in the central highlands of Mexico, the same region where Teotihuacan dominated more than 500 years earlier. Like the Maya, the Aztecs constructed enormous, ornate pyramids, developed a complex religion that was fused with the political system, and were accomplished astronomers. However, the Aztecs, or Mexica, or Tenocha, as they called themselves, did not always seem destined for greatness. Before 1325, they were an itinerant group that scratched out an existence as mercenaries and cheap laborers for other, more established cultures. According to legend, the Tenocha were the chosen people of the war god Huitzilopochtli, who instructed the Tenocha to find the place where an eagle with a serpent in its beak perched on a cactus in the middle of a lake. This was to be the Promised Land, the islands of Lake Texcoco, where the Aztecs built the twin capitals of Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. The legend remains a vital part of Mexican culture and is represented on the country’s flag. Example: “In this essay I will talk about the rise and spread of Islam.”
Correction: “Islam spread throughout the Middle East, Asia,
Africa and into Europe through conquest, trade and migration.”
Example: “Islam requires you to follow the five pillars of faith.”
Islam doesn’t require me (Mari Centeno) to do anything.
Correction: “Islam requires believers to follow the five pillars of
faith.” Example: “Also, the Muslim’s version of Heaven is a paradise.”
Correction: “Like Christians, Muslims think of heaven as a
paradise.”
Example: “Israel is a strong country. They have a powerful
army.”
“Israel” is singular so it should be referred to as “it” not “they.”
Correction: “Israel is a strong country. It has a powerful
military.”
Even better: “Israel is a strong country with a powerful military.”
Trigger, Bruce. (2008). “Early cities: craft workers, kings and controlling the supernatural” (pp 58 - 66). In: Joyce Marcus and Jeremy Sabloff (eds), The Ancient City: new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world. New Mexico: A School for Advanced Research.