Career advice: how to write an academic email

Typography expert’s rules for making messages easier to read elicit both praise and claims of pedantry

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January 12, 2017

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July 31, 2018

Jack Grove

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I can see clearly now: academics receive thousands of emails in a year and following rules on spacing text may help everyone digest messages more easily

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