How do I politely request an email to be resent?
Dear Sir,I’m afraid I have not received your previous e-mail containing the required form.Would you be as kind as to send it once again to me, so I can fill it and work through this required step?Thanks a lot and best regards.-ALSO: call the person. The person may have an inbox full of other e-mails and may not see your e-mail until it’s too late.
How do you write a polite reminder email to your boss?
Heh, I don't have to be "polite" with my boss (one of the perks of small company and 9 years experience), so we usually go with direct and occasionally add some name calling."hey, when are you going to get to XX?""do you need to be involved in the decision about YY? or can I handle that?"Subject lines can look like:"Client_Name: availability for phone conference?" (the body would include the suggested meeting times)"Client_Name Invoice question""meeting today to review project XYZ - availability?"I find I have significantly better responses with VERY short e-mails that get as close as possible to a yes/no answer for any busy person.
How do I write a follow-up email to a professor regarding an independent study?
Here is one thing you should understand. Academics often do not read emails immediately. (I had a student who emailed me in the morning with a whine. I decided I would reply when I had got information together. In the afternoon she emailed me again saying “Thanks for ignoring me”. {Sarcasm]) We have lots of things to do, including lecturing, marking and dealing with university administrators, writing and refereeing papers and grant proposals. We go to conferences and some of us sometimes have holidays.I have colleagues who routinely delete any emails without a subject. Usually we will look at unread emails and from the subject and the sender decide which need to be dealt with most urgently. At a busy time, e.g. marking exam papers, we will look at the inbox a couple of times a day to see if there is an emergency, but leave most emails untouched.If we read an email, then it joins the thousands of others. If it is unread, then it will stay in our inbox and be there when we open it. This is the simplest way of keeping them in our “to do” box. Some will have ways of sorting (which is liable to mean that student ones do not get into the “most urgent” category). However, emails may remain unread for a week or two. If you are inquiring at an early stage with many months to go, the academic will think “I can leave this till later”.You should therefore consider what is going on at the time you sent the first email. Is the professor likely to be busy marking or at a world congress? Is the professor actually in this country?Nevertheless, it is reasonable to send a reminder, but be polite. “Have you had time to consider…..?”. Look back at your first email. Did it have a good subject? Was it well-written and polite? In other words would you be impressed if you were the recipient? See if you can improve. Be brief, but is there anything you can add to make you look better? For example, that you have read a paper and are interested this area. (Being interested is one of the strongest virtues of a potential student.)
Is saying "please advise" in an email request polite or obnoxious?
Personally I don’t like seeing it, but I do use it myself sometimes in cases where I’m a little frustrated, for example about:Someone made a request to me (or to nobody in particular) that’s unclear or lacks sufficient information that the person really should have provided.I received a comment that’s not even a request but more just stating a fact of some kind. I’m now wondering if action should be taken and if so, what action. I’m frustrated here with the lack of clarity, so my reply may end with a ‘Please advise.’A lot of discussion without any clear next steps or task assignment.Another advantage of using it is that it establishes very clearly to a casual reader on Cc that an issue is not with me, it is with the other person and I’m waiting for his/her input.For me personally I would never use it out of the blue in a first polite request for information.So yes, I do intend to be a bit more direct (possibly not crossing into rude) when I use it, although I see it enough to know that not everyone uses it that way.
Nailed the job interview...no answer. Now what?
Hi all I went to a job interview last week and totally nailed it! I really enjoyed the interview and so did the people interviewing me and I had a great feeling about it. Here it is a week later and still no answer. Is it rude of me to send an email and ask if they've made a decision? I am used to hearing back within a day or two of the interview, but 7 days later I am still waiting. The only thing I can think is that since I had to wait over a week for the interview from the day they contacted me, they're very busy...and perhaps they're interviewing more candidates. So should I just this lie for a little longer, or should I send an email. If so, what should it say? I have been on pins and needles for the last week...so much so it's keeping me up at night and I am getting really "snappy" at everybody...
Which is correct: "I have mailed you..." or "I mailed you..."?
Either-or, it doesn't really matter. I think the preferred form is "I have mailed you." But it's really up to the individual. Personally I use "I've mailed you."