My Email Address and Requirements

Please send me an email before the second day of class so that I can create a class list. I use this list to send out corrections to what was said in class, changes to assignments, etc. You need to be on this list.

My email addresses: jajones20@verizon.net or jones@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Please use only one; don't use both. They go to the same place.

The golden rules of email correspondence

    • Check your email daily.

    • ALWAYS PUT <yourname> IN THE SUBJECT. It's not realistic to expect your instructors to remember the handles of dozens of students and to know who may be hiding behind flatbush-prince-of-darkness@blahblahblah.com.

     • If you have a "funny" email address, you should consider getting a professional-looking email address. A common format is your first name’s initial followed by the last name. As an alternative you could use your last name followed by three or more digits that are easy to remember (street address, part of telephone number, etc.)

    • Email is a FORMAL means of communication (at least when you correspond with your professors or employers, etc.). Avoid abbreviations, slang and cuteness. Let's treat each other with respect. Use capital letters, punctuation, greetings and salutations as in a professional message.

    • The use of magic words (please, thank you) and politeness in general is strongly encouraged.

    • Sign every message at the bottom. Why? Because it is GOOD MANNERS and if it is a long message, the reader doesn't have to scroll up to check who the sender is.

    • When you send homework by email, into the SUBJECT field enter <yourname> followed by the number of the assignment (Assn 1, etc.). This allows me to put your email into folders for easier retrieval and record keeping. Submit exactly ONE assignment per email; do not send several assignments in one email. Send the homework as an ATTACHMENT.

   • For other email, the subject of your email must contain the following or it may end up in my SPAM filter:

          CIS <course number> – your name – Assignment number or subject

Exchange phone numbers or email addresses with more than one classmate. Please do not write to let your instructors know that you were not in class (they already know), to ask them to summarize what s/he did or will do in class; or what the assignment is/was. Email a classmate instead.