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Why writing shorter emails has big benefits

Starting with structure

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Creating email subject lines or the art of getting students to open your email

Keep it short and snappy!

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What's in it for me? The question all emails should answer

Students are some of the busiest people, yet they have enough time to do everything. On any given day you’ll find them managing heavy study loads, working a job, contributing to a household, caring for others, and socialising on short notice. I graduated a few years ago and since then, my time between the office and home seems to vanish quickly. How did I fit it all in when I was a student?

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Handy hints for distributing surveys to students

You have spent hours of your life designing your survey and are finally ready to set it free and feel excited about watching the responses fly in — I get it! As a communications professional, I design information for a living and secretly hope our students will find the topic just as interesting as I do. However, no matter how hard we try sometimes our work does not return the engagement from our audience that we think it deserves. This is particularly true for surveys when we consider how much information is screaming at students for attention.

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