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You will learn how to write a subject line that will

• be easily recognizable and distinguishable from other emails in your recipient’s inbox

• prompt your recipient to want to know more and thus to open your mail

• help establish a personal connection with your recipient

• summarize the content of the email so that your recipient will know what to expect even before reading the contents of the mail

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Wallwork, A. (2011). Subject Lines. In: English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9401-1_1

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