Hey everybody! In this tutorial I'm going to be
teaching you how to write a proper email and we're going to be using Gmail.
So I'm here on the Google home page and
you'll notice right here that it says Gmail,
that's one way I could get to my email. Another way I can get to Gmail is by
clicking on the Google apps here and you can go here to Gmail. You might
also want to add Gmail as a bookmark. So the way you would do that is
by going up here and bookmarking this tab and then
if you don't want that to have all of that, you can take that off so that it
just says Gmail. So the benefit of adding Gmail
as a bookmark is that you'll be able to get back there
very quickly. So if you're back here on Google
and you want to get to your Gmail, you can get to Gmail.
Similarly if you're on another web page altogether,
rather than trying to retype in Gmail or go back to Google and get the Gmail app,
all you have to do is click on that bookmark. Okay
we're in Gmail and we need to compose an email.
So the way that we're going to do that is by going here to 'Compose'
and that's going to pop up a little box for you
that will allow you to type an email. In the 'To' section of the email you are
going to type the email address of a person that you want to send the email
to and then in the subject line, you're going to write the subject
of your email. This is the first place where I start to see
students making some mistakes. So one mistake that I see
is that students simply do not have a subject
and another mistake that I see is that students try to write
an entire sentence in their subject. So you don't want to leave it blank but
you also don't want to fill it up with a ton of information.
The best guideline is to keep your email subject
relatively short. So for example if this email is going to be about needing
additional support, you could write 'Need additional support.' Or if the email
is going to be about a question that you have,
you could just write 'A question.' If you want to let your teacher know
that you will not be in class tomorrow, rather than a complete sentence, you
could write 'Absent tomorrow.' So notice that all
you're doing here is writing a few words that tells the person who's
getting your email what the content of your email is going
to be about. Notice as well that I am not putting everything
in all caps and I'm also not capitalizing the first letter of the
second word because it's not a proper noun. So
we just write 'Absent tomorrow' with a lowercase t.
Then in the first line of your email you're going to need to address your
teacher. The most proper way to do that is by
saying dear and then writing your teacher's name, Mr.,
we'll call our teacher, J. After Mr J.
you want to put a comma and then you're going to hit the return
key twice. Then you'll start the content of your email.
After you've written your email with correct punctuation and capitalization
you're going to hit the return key twice again
and you are going to sign off on your email.
So you can say things like 'Thanks' or if you want to make
it more formal you can say something like 'Sincerely.'
Another way you could sign off an email is with 'Best.'
There are a couple of other important things to show you about emailing.
Now let's say that you want to actually send this email to
multiple teachers to let them know that you're going to be absent.
You could go up here to the recipient section of the email
and then type your other teacher's email address. If you do that you're also going
to want to change the salutation, so instead of just saying
Mr J., you would want to say 'Dear Mr. J and
Mr. Teacher.' Something else you might want to do
is attach things to your email. So for example if there was something from your
computer that you needed to attach, you could go down here to 'Attach Files'
and that will allow you to select files from your computer that you could
add to your email. And then when you are ready to hit send
on that email, you're going to go down to the blue 'Send'
button and hit 'Send.' All right those are the very
basics of how to create an email in Gmail
and look out for another tutorial where we're going to go over some of the
different attachments that you can add to your email
as well.