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  • email etiquette

    Effective Email Etiquette

    Email is the most common, and quickest, means of business communication. Just because email gets there faster, it doesn’t mean that you should spend less time on the finer details. Think of email as part of your product or service. Would you give these any...

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    What’s Great About Email?

    It’s so easy to create a permanent message and send it to tens, even thousands of people. What leverage! Guess what’s bad? It’s so easy to take your permanent message and send it to tens, even thousands, of people. That little fact is a reminder...

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  • Osher Institute Recognizes Poetry Month

    Osher Institute Recognizes Poetry Month

    Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at SDSU’s College of Extended Studies will offer a “Writing Poetry” class for individuals 50 years of age and better from 10-11:50 am Fridays, April 29-May 20 at the SDSU Extended...

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  • English Language Facts

    English Language Facts

    There are 380 million native speakers It is the most widely learned second language in the world Over 700 million people speak English, as a foreign language There are nearly 500,000 English words 80% of the world’s computer information is in English The shortest complete...

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  • SDSU Writers’ Conference Registration: Do it Now!

    SDSU Writers’ Conference Registration: Do it Now!

    Registration is still available to the general public for the 27th Annual San Diego State University Writers’ Conference, which will take place Friday-Sunday, January 28-30 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Diego’s Mission Valley. Times are Friday, January 28 from 6 to 7:30 pm; Saturday,...

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  • College Offers New Grant Writing Professional Certificate

    College Offers New Grant Writing Professional Certificate

    Increased community need and the emergence of new funding opportunities have made this a perfect time for the San Diego State University College of Extended Studies to reach out to the greater San Diego community through its new Professional Certificate in Grant Writing. This program...

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  • The Five Essential Steps to Effective Business Writing

    The Five Essential Steps to Effective Business Writing

    A powerful method for devel­oping any document, from a quick note to a lengthy report, is the Five-Step Writing Process. 1. Think Begin by clustering or “mind-mapping” your ideas. Be sure to think about what you want to write and to whom you are writing....

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