Email, and Ethics Search Engine Research Paper

Part 2: Evaluating Emails

Jump ahead in the textbook and read pp. 365-71, on email etiquette, and check out this website, which lists 101 email etiquette tips: http://101emailetiquettetips.com/

Then, read over a wide selection of emails that you received and sent over the past week or so, in both personal and professional contexts, and assess how well those emails follow the etiquette outlined both in the textbook and on the website. Write one paragraph analyzing the emails you've received and one paragraph analyzing those you've sent.

In analyzing the e-mails received over the last week, there are several areas for improvement both with co-workers within the company I work for, and with friends who frequently send very large files across personal and private e-mail systems. The most noticeable gaffe of all however are the mis-spellings and very rapid requests for help or assistance, which appear terse and at times demanding. There is one manager who may not realize that he is portraying himself as arrogant and condescending in his requests for information. This is most noticeable with how he copies literally the entire division of the company I work for stating his accomplishments and also stating "he and his team" will review the findings of recent sales strategies. He doesn't have a team, he is an individual contributor.The biggest gaffe of all I see in e-mail is not recognizing and valuing the people getting the message however. The majority of e-mails do more self-promotion and less actual communication, therefore they generate resentment and make others stop cooperating.

From analyzing my own e-mails, I can see that I am sending inordinately larger attachments, in addition to rushing e-mails with spelling errors in them on occasion. My biggest problem is in writing e-mails that are too long and include too many bullet points. There is also the challenge of succinctly getting to the point in many of my e-mails. I need to become better at quickly summarizing key points and showing the context of my insights and decisions. Finally I also need to cut down on "Reply All" in how reply to e-mails as I can see that I've sent many people e-mail messages they didn't really need.

Part 3: Plagiarism and the Internet

In this week's reading you learned how to recognize and avoid ethical abuses in the workplace. But ethical abuses can happen and do happen in academic settings as well. With so much information readily available on the Internet, and with the ease of copying and pasting text from one document into.....