For better or worse, if you work any kind of corporate or office job, emails will take a prominent spot in your daily work schedule. They are arguably still the most important means of communicating, since they are both (nearly) instantaneous but also asynchronous and allow the transfer of structured information.

However, they are also one of the technologies that are rarely trained, since most people assume that writing a mail, be it digital or analog, is obvious. While that may be true in general, there is a significant gap between a well-crafted email and a poorly written barely understandable one. This post aims to give a sort of crash course based on personal experiences and opinions in how to write effective messages.