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• Changing thoughts or statements that convey ways to
organize, structure, and control events to statements that are
less directive and more contingent
• Acknowledging and inviting a response from the other person
• Including more variation in sentence structure
• Using more adjectives and adverbs
• Being more personal

For example, Raymond could revise his e-mail like this:

Dear Joe,
It was good to hear from you. All is well at the office. We
have new projects coming in all the time, ones that are
demanding a great deal of my time and attention. I will call
you when I next come to San Francisco, but when that will
be is unclear. Hopefully, it will be soon.
Looking forward to talking with you,
Raymond

Martha could rewrite her e-mail this way:

Greetings, Arnold!
Unfortunately, Ken is out sick today, so he is unable to
return your e-mail. In answer to your request, Gloria will
forward you directions to the parking structure for our office.
You are scheduled for the senior staff meeting agenda
tomorrow. I, along with the six other senior staff members,
am looking forward to meeting with you tomorrow at 12:00.
It would be helpful if you arrived around 11:55 a.m.,
because we will be walking to a local restaurant. It may take
you 45 minutes or so to get here at that time of day.
Please let me know if there’s anything else you need.
Regards,
Martha