Analysis of Tips for Writing Professional Email Articles Authored by McKay - Essay Example

The most obvious of these is the first one in which he is asking the readers to mind their manners while writing their emails. Since the article talks about writing a professional email, this tip is fairly obvious as one has to be respectable and formal because the email is not to a friend or any other acquaintance. The other tip that has unnecessarily been mentioned is about being professional. Even the title of the article is about writing a professional email so one would act professional while writing it, so adding an extra ‘tip’ for the point does not add appeal to the article.

Apart from the fairly obvious tips, some points are not necessary while writing a professional email. In particular, I disagree with the author’s tip number six in which he talks about asking the recipient about sending an attachment. This tip sounds unprofessional since taking consent and then sending an attachment would take an unnecessarily greater amount of time. Also, there might be a need for urgency in sending out the attachment and the best way would be to send an attachment and explain it in the body of the email and then leave it to the recipient to decide what he wants to do with it.

Apart from the inadequacies mentioned above, the article is very useful and helpful. I found the last tip extremely important and useful which is about writing the email body first before adding the recipient. Also since I have also had an unfortunate experience of sending an incomplete email because I mistakenly clicked on the send button, I can connect to this tip. From now onwards, I would keep this tip in mind while I am writing down a professional email to prevent any accidental premature sending of the email.

Moreover, the fifth tip is also extremely useful. Until now I only used to proofread my emails by myself and sometimes the errors got mistakenly left out. From now onwards, I would be incorporating this tip while penning down a professional email and using grammar and error-checking software to keep the errors to a minimum. All in all, the article is very nicely presented and apart from its few flaws, it is a very helpful guide.