Today, all I really only use email for is school. I have a setting so that whenever someone sends me an email, it also comes in as a text message to my phone because I rarely ever check my email. Most people that need to contact me will either text or call me. This being said, I don’t think schools will ever really switch from emailing. I would just feel very uncomfortable texting my professor because texting seems way more personal than emailing.

I think that many students are so accustomed to new types of communication, like texting, where communication is very brief and to the point that it becomes hard to switch back into writing a long, formal email. It seems so pointless to add all of these other words when really you just want to ask your question and send the email. But, I do understand where professors are coming from when they want emails to be written in a certain way. Just like you would talk to your professor much more formally than you would talk to your best friend, emails and communication should be more formal too.

My school was one of the rare schools that actually taught their students how to properly email a teacher. In 7^th grade, one of my required computer classes actually had a unit on how to properly email teachers. The format I learned was pretty similar to the format given in “How to Email Your Professor”, and it has been ingrained in my mind ever since I learned it. I would probably have no idea how to email a teacher if I had not learned it in this class. I think it is important that students be taught how to properly write an email especially if teachers are expecting it to be written in a certain way.