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Replying to students' emails or ignoring irrelevant questions
I started teaching this year and what surprises me is how often students will just send you emails asking about stuff that I feel they should figure out by themselves.
For instance, they will email me ...
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Should I (assistant professor) call undergraduates by first name or Mr/Ms [closed]
There are lots of questions about how undergrads should address professors, but this is about the opposite. Context is North American research university.
My instinct and personal preference is to ...
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What can professors do to encourage properly written email messages from students?
(Motivated by https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/55082/hey-i-was-wondering-of-your-students-write-like-this)
The writing style probably [stems] from the electronic age of text
messaging. In ...
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How to deal with students who submit their homework as an attachment to a completely blank e-mail?
I am responsible for the exercises for a graduate course (which happens to contain only international students). The students submit their solutions via email and all of them send a normal email: ...
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