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[|Writing Business Emails]
This online tutorial is designed for native speakers of English, but has many useful tips for learners of business English for producing well written, clear emails. For more about the producers go to [|The Plain English Campaign] website.

Emailing is ruining my life
Two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK. That is almost three billion each day. But what is the real cost of this information overload? Read this article to find out more.

Emailing vocabulary
Here are five online interactive activities to practise email writing vocabulary. Both are based on the [|Oxford University Press] course book [|Business One:One] (Intermediate).

[|Activity 1]: Arranging a meeting [|Activity 2]: Replying to a complaint [|Activity 3]: Thanking and making arrangements [|Activity 4]: Sorry, but that's not quite what we need [|Activity 5]: A complaint

10 Things To Do To Ensure You Come Across As A Complete Idiot In Your Email Correspondence
This article outlines a list of email practices you should avoid to make your business emails professional. Read the article and luse the discussion tab to list your choice of the three best pieces of advice giving your reason for your choices.

[|Business letter structure]
This www.ego4u.com link provides lots of useful help with business letter writing covering areas like the [|sender's address], the [|date], the [|recipient's address], the [|salutation], the [|subject line], the [|body of the letter], the [|greeting], and [|enclosures].

[|Business letter generator]
Try writing business letters using the templates for [|enquiries], [|offers], [|orders], [|order confirmations], [|dispatch notes,][|invoices and overdue notices] that are provided by www.ego4u.com. Choose the template and mark the checkboxes for the sentences you want to use in your business letter. The result can be copied into the clipboard or saved as TXT or RTF file (e.g. for MS-Word).

[|Emailing]
How do you feel about emailing? Think about what you like and dislike about emails. Now compare your views with those expressed by the people in this video clip:

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Listen again and make a list of the email related problems and advantages the people refer to. Do you agree with them? Have you had similar experiences? If so, post a comment using the discussion tab above.