Baruch Email (adapted from Seth Graves’ course)

Baruch uses a Microsoft Outlook platform for sending and receiving emails. For this course, please use your Baruch email address and communicate with others’ Baruch email addresses (including mine: [email protected]). You can also communicate on Slack.

Faculty emails are @baruch, while student emails are @baruchmail. You can set up Outlook via a phone or tablet app, as well as in a web browser.

Here’s some instructions below with more information from Baruch about getting started with their email system.

Instructions

1. Login to your Microsoft Office 365 account (Outlook is an Office365 app) here. You log in with your first initial followed by your last name (for me, it is DLibertz) and then use your password.

2. Create an email addressed to me ([email protected]).

3. Give it the subject line “9/8 Learning Module Email – Question”

4. In the email, say hi and include a note that you’re emailing me to complete this task.

5. Use this as an opportunity to ask me any questions about the class.

Please keep your emails fully human. That is to say, at a minimum include some kind of “hello” (etc.) at the beginning, and put your name on the email at the end. Please don’t just paste links in emails and send them to me. The same should go for when you email your peers.

Emails are a genre of writing which descends from letter writing, which has the convention of greeting people by name, exchanging some sort of pleasantry at the onset (e.g., hope you are well, a quick note about a previous interaction), getting to the message, signing off (e.g., sincerely, best regards, thank you), and ending with your name.

Slack communication descends from instant messaging via computers (which what text messaging on phones also descends from). The conventions are much more different since they are part of an ongoing and continuous conversation whereas emails (like letters) are periodic messages among several other, which, to some degree, require more personalized identifying conversation markers.

Comment below once you have sent your email to me.

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