Academic emails homework

Send your teacher an email for which a reply from that person would really be useful.

Suggested topics

  • Advice about an application/ Asking for feedback on an application
  • Advice about studying abroad
  • Advice on a paper/ essay/ dissertation you are writing or thinking of writing
  • Advice on getting published (perhaps with a link to where you want to be published)
  • Advice on one aspect of academic writing, e.g. titles or references
  • An enquiry about something you didn’t (fully) understand in class
  • Asking for feedback on some aspects of something you have written (probably attaching it)
  • Asking for more details about something the teacher presented/ said
  • Asking how to catch up with missed lessons and/ or homework
  • Asking the teacher to clear up an apparent contradiction (e.g. between what this teacher said and what someone else wrote or said, or between two things the teacher said)
  • Explanation of a language point
  • Following up something you said to the teacher
  • Self-study advice
  • Something related to a future lesson or course

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