Digital Smarts - Email Etiquette Rules

A recent post from USA Today columnist Steven Petrow discusses a few rules for business emails that could help give kids some tips for when they need to formally send or answer emails corresponding with teachers, college admissions staff, and employers for internship or job opportunities. The rules include items like using correct titles and remembering that spelling counts. There is also a suggestion to avoid composing these kinds of emails on your cellphone as it is easy to forget proper grammar, spelling and etiquette, or become victim of auto-correct adding words or spellings you didn’t mean.