“Squishy words are your greatest enemy. Self-defeating phrases like ‘I feel,’ ‘I’m not sure,’ ‘perhaps,’ using the passive voice, or pretty much any adverbs waste time for both you and your recipient, and muddle your point.”
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Julie Zhuo suggests eight ways to write more effective emails including to call out action items and names in bold, know your end before your start writing, and practice the skill of brevity by taking a previous email you’ve written and eliminating half the words to train yourself to be more concise.