I attended a seminar on email etiquette last night because I wasn’t really sure if I was drafting emails properly. To my surprise, a lot of the things I do like introducing myself, being concise, and including a small amount of pleasantries are actually what you should be doing. I also learned about the different honorifics used to address people. I never realized that there was so much controversy over addressing someone as Ms. or Mrs. I now know that it’s very important to address people properly. And that can be learned through “stalking” the person you’re emailing. I already knew about most of the methods of “stalking” like LinkedIn, but Research Gate was a new one for me. I feel like there is this whole world of academic sources that I wasn’t aware of because I’ve been focused on business, not academics.