What Your E-mail
Etiquette Says About You
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Thesis: “But even the most garbled and indecipherable
of them are saying something, and what they have to say is, in terms of social
status, a bummer. See, the e-blurt, like so many modes of personal expression,
is all about power.”
The thesis states that the emailer or texter is too busy to
spell out what he or she is trying to convey, so they have given you the job to
decode it. They do this because they are
more busy or powerful then you and don’t have time to waste.
First Supporting Argument: “To shoot a messy spitball through the
cybernetic air is to convey a very simple and subconscious message to it
recipient: I am busier than you, hence I am
more powerful than you.”
The first supporting argument states that the sender feels
as though they have already mastered the correct etiquette. In that case they
don’t feel the need to practice it on a lower status’.
Second Supporting
Argument: “But these days it is
often the highly wired overlords, and those who aspire to march among them, who
choose to express themselves in the brute vernacular of 12-year-old- mall rats.
“One, it says that you’re sort of ‘hip’ powerful. You’re not formal and stuffy.
And done right, it can also remind people of your power. In other words, you’re
so confident of your position in life that what might be considered errors for others
are not errors for you.”
The second supporting argument states that it is also done
to stay current and connect to the times and connect to a younger
audience. As well as to not appear
stuffy and stale.
Third Supporting
Argument: “Still, the catch is that
that CEO might be planting the seeds of his own sabotage. As Flynn explains, “If
your poorly written e-mail messages are retained as part of the company’s
electronic business records, and the company is hit with a lawsuit, and your
e-mail is subpoenaed, the fact that your messages were written in an
unprofessional illogical way could come back to haunt not only you but the
company as well. Because that may help support a plaintiff’s claim that it wasn’t
a professional work environment.”
The third supporting argument doesn’t support the flow of
the thesis, but it does back up the fact that there can be consequences to
inadequate use of grammar and communicating.
Conclusion: “Which only confirms what I’ve always felt
about power: that the people who really understand it don’t say anything at
all.”
The conclusion states the underlying feelings that the
author truly has about the subject.
Connor Allen, Preston Allen, Madeleine Seltzer, Dustin Saunders
