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How to Make Your Message Meaningful

  1. C the metamessage that contextualizes how listeners are expected to accept and interpret verbal message
  2. II. Choose a clear, concise purpose for your message.
  3. Skim the text and define the general message of this text.
  4. To make things more complicated, each message has more than one meaning; often, there are many layers of meaning.
  5. Use the table to make up as many meaningful sentences as possible. You could complete them with place adverbials

Sometimes, the most difficult thing in writing e-mails is

to express your emotions and be sure their true meaning

won't be misinterpreted. (1) There are some commonly used 1. understood wrongly

ways to make your message meaningful.

If you want to give mild (2)emphasis, you enclose it in 2. not great or extreme

asterisks (*). For example: I *said* that I was going last

Thursday. or I said that I was going last *Thursday*.

Or you can also capitalize the first letter only to give light

emphasis (3).E.g. I thought my brother was There... 3. extra force given to a word

Strong emphasis is expressed by using all capital letters or phrase

and exclamation (4) marks (!). E.g. NO!!! I'll NEVER 4. a short sound, word or

do that!!!! phrase spoken suddenly

If you extremely excited and really need to emphasize to express an emotion

something, you can write it like this: NO!!! I'll

>>!!**NEVER**!!<< do that!!!! But, don't use this too

often, excepting some extreme cases.

E-mail messages also lack (5) facial expressions and body 5. have none or not enough

language. While you are unable to accompany (6) your words 6. go together with something

with hand or facial gestures (7), there are some ways to else

describe it in your message. These include "smileys" 7. movements that you make

or "emoticons". (See the table below) with your hands, your head

But don't overuse smileys, internet expressions or acronyms - or your face to show some

not everyone will know what you are talking about. meaning

"Acronyms" are used to save space and attract the

recipient's attention to some information. E.g.

ASAP: As soon as possible AAMOF: As a matter of fact

BTW: By the way AFIK: As far as I know

CU: See you (good bye) F2F: Face-to-face

FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions FOAF: Friend of a friend

HTH: Hope this helps FYA: For your amusement

TIA: Thanks in Advance FYI: For your information

IMO: In my opinion IOW: In other words

HSIK: How should I know IWBNI: It would be nice if

TTYL: Talk to you later KIS: Keep in simple

BBL: Be back later NRN: No response necessary

OTL: Out to lunch OS: Operating system

SRAM: Unwanted mail OTOH: On the other hand

B2B: Business to business R: Received

 



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