"hey, can I get an extension? thanks" sent to an instructor is missing:

Answer

All but the ask — subject, salutation, reason, date, sign-off

Options - A. Only the subject line - B. Only a sign-off with the writer's full name and student number - C. Nothing — it is admirably concise - D. All but the ask — subject, salutation, reason, date, sign-off Why - A. The subject is missing, and so is everything else that lets the reader act: which course, which assignment, until when, and who is asking. - B. The sign-off is missing — and so is the salutation, the specific ask, the reason, and the date. - C. Concise means no words that do no work; this has no words that do any. The reader cannot act on it. - D. Correct — a rubric scores it one line out of ten. Subject, a salutation with the right title, the specific ask with a date, one sentence of reason, the evidence, a sign-off with full name and student number.

Smith 6.1.11 (the side-by-side rewrite); concept map J17