How to E-mail To Me (and others) in this Course

Please DO NOT

• mail your work as an attachment of any kind;
• use HTML mail -- text only, please.

How to email 'text only' on Webmail:

• Write your essay on a Word Processing program, like MS Word, WordPerfect, or whatever you use. Any of them will do. Finish it; spell- and grammar-check it. Format it single spaced, with a BLANK LINE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS. In other words, get it looking just the way you want it to look.
• Still in your Word Processor, highlight your whole text (Control-A will do this, or you can just 'select' all the text).
• In Webmail, press "Compose." A new blank email message will open up.
• Put your cursor over the "Message" area -- where your message will go -- in the blank email.
• Right-click your mouse, and select "Paste".

The result will be "plain text", "text only", "unformatted text" -- all these terms are equivalent.

Please DO

• write your assignments using a Word Processing program of some sort. You have much more control over the text that way, and can more easily rewrite and edit;
• spell-check everything before you email it to me;
• SINGLE-SPACE YOUR TEXT. You can do this after you've finished writing and correcting it, if you like. But send it to me single-spaced.
• leave a BLANK LINE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS. "Text" or "ASCII" (.txt, .asc) files can be read by any Word Processor and on any "platform" (for example on Alpha, which I use). But the only way .txt or .asc can recognize a new paragraph is by a blank line. If you fail to put a blank line between paragraphs, it will come out as one long paragraph when I read it, no matter how it looks to you.
• COPY-AND-PASTE your text from your Word Processor to the "message area" of your email message. The "messag area" is the space you would write your message in if you were writing one, rather than "copying-and-pasting" it.
  • Highlight the text to be copied and either use the pulldown menus, Edit-Copy and then Edit-Paste, or use the Keystroke commands: Control-A to "Select All", Control-C to "Copy", Control-V to "Paste"
• Remember to paste the message into the MESSAGE AREA of your email message (where you write your message).
• Before sending, double-check to make sure that there is a blank line between paragraphs.

DO NOT FORGET

• to set all your e-mail accounts to automatically send a copy to you yourself of every message you mail out. This will ensure that, if I lose your assignment, or it goes astray, you have a copy, with the date and time you mailed it out preserved in the header.
• to create a "list" of everyone in your discussion group plus me. That way, you only have to send the message out one time, for all of us to receive it.

If you have any questions, or need any help, email me, at any time. I check my email twice a day, and will help you as soon as I can.