How to Compose An Email

For those of you who still need help with this: Here's a helpful (and essential) list of 20 questions you should answer before you hit the send button on any email. Join the resistance, and help fight email slobbery:

1. Is the subject line helpful?

2. Did you get right to the point?

3. Is the language clear?

4. Did you say too much?

5. Are your facts right?

6. Did you say what you're replying to?

7. Were you polite?

8. Were you discreet?

9. Is there a greeting and a closing?

10. Is the attachment welcome?

11. Did you use the shift key? Capitalize properly!

12. Did you break for paragraphs?

13. Will the reader get the shorthand? Avoid "slanguage"

14. Will the joke fall flat? Don't forward jokes!

15. Does this look like spam?

16. Do all these people need copies?

17. Should you sleep on it? Never e-mail in the heat of anger.

18. Does it have to be an e-mail?

19. Did you read it again?

20. Did you check the grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

See the whole thing at Grammarphobia.com