How to Email Your Professors
This part of a student email chould include the course name, section number, and a clearly stated topic of the message.
What is the subject line?
You don’t need an ID to do this, even though most freshmen think that you do!
What is, "To Ride the T!"?
This note-taking system visually divides the page into a sidebar of cues, a main section of notes, and a summary section at the end.
What is the Cornell notetaking method?
One helpful fact about our library is...
What is...:
1) Librarians on staff can help you online or in-person
2) Research librarians build guides and help you find subject-specific sources
3) There are tons of different study spaces in our library
4) On the 2nd floor of the library, you'll find the Vol Study Center, the Math Place, the Public Speaking Center, and the Writing Center
5) The library lends out A/V equipment
6) The library has media support--like the Studio!
7) Our research guides help you find secondary, primary, and other sources!
8) We have other libraries than Hodges--including Pendergrass and DeVine!
9) We have an archive in our library that collects artifacts digitally and physically
10) The library posts special stuff on their websites, including Youtube and Instagram
You get free premium access to this site with your UTK credentials
What is The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal?
This is one reason why the example “bad email” from the mini-lesson on emailing didn’t work well. It's also the reason you don't start emails: "Hey, teach..."
What is audience awareness?
This office can help you decide on your major and find internships.
What is the Center for Career Development and Academic Exploration?
One goal of note-taking is to be able to refer back to information... but there are other goals, too, such as...
What is "to follow a conversation" or "to stay engaged"?
These UT librarians (or resources) can help students find resources tailored to their specific classes or majors.
What are "research guides" or "subject librarians"?
This is one reason students often don’t go to office hours, even when they need help.
What is fear, nervousness, thinking you're bothering your instructor, or not knowing what to say?
According to Laura Portwood-Stacer (and common sense), this phrase should not be how you start your email.
What is "Hey" or "Yo"?
UTK’s wellness services include this center, which offers therapy, psychological care, crisis care, and med management.
What is the Student Counseling Center?
This activity involves highlighting main ideas, writing questions, and identifying unfamiliar terms while you read.
What is annotating a reading?
What is a "parenthetical citation" and a "works cited" page?
This campus wellness resource can help with stress, nutrition, violence prevention, or even alcohol education.
What is the Center for Health Education and Wellness?
When emailing a classmate about missed work vs. emailing a professor, one major difference could be this.
What is the "tone" or level of formality?
This resource helps students struggling with housing or food insecurity.
What is the Center for Basic Needs?
On the second floor of the library, you'll find a study space for....
What is the Math Place, the Vol Study Center, the public speaking center, or the Herbert Writing Center?
In the library scavenger hunt, you used these letters and numbers to find a book.
What is "a Library of Congress call number"?
Using the handy Office of Information Technologies Guide, you can download this software to your computer OR access a browser-based version
What is Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus?
A student, John, emailed his Marketing professor: "Dear Mrs. Smith...". Her reply was brutally mean! How should his email have started instead?
What is "Professor" or "Dr. Smith"
What is "TRUE!"
The Modern Language Association standardizes the methods scholars in the humanities use to show attribution and where information came from. This piece of the attribution goes at the end of any paper and is a great place to keep track of your sources as you produce a research project.
What is a "works cited page" or "citations page"?
When you're primarily working on internet-based sources, you can use this digital platform that UTK subscribes to for notetaking and keeping track of quotes.
What is PowerNotes?
What is it called when you include a fact, information, or writing in your paper and don't tell your reader where it came from?
What is "plagiarism" 👿 ?