Help In English

[FatemaAhmed]

Hello everyone!

I want to write an email to my professor and want to confirm that for the assignment do I need to follow any particular writing style or academic format. Can someone proofread my email. Thank you.

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Dear professor,
I' hope you are doing well, I want to confirm that do we need to follow any particular writing format or style to write our essay.

regards,
abc

[calda49]

Dear Professor,
I wish to confirm that when writing our essay, we do not need to follow a particular format , or writing style.
With regards,
abc

Hope this helps, you don't need the personal comment in this type of question.

[-SharonA-]

Why don't you download Grammarly. It may help you.
https://www.grammarly.com

[Paigntonian]

We've had this several months ago.

[brainiac]

If you are doing a course that is overseen by a professor, then presumably you are a university student. I don't understand how you have got that far in your education but cannot compose a simple email.

[bednobs]

I presume it's because fatema is Egyptian, doing a degree in Germany, but needs to write/speak English!

[bobbinwales]

Fatema,
Your English is good enough to understand for short emails. Your professor will understand it and probly gets more which are written in text speak with emojis and grammer errors. Your being marked on your coursework not your email so IMO you shouldnt worry about your English for such emails.

Am not even sure some whether this email is necessary. Have you written essays before? The only requirement may be the number of words. An essay is an essay and its your work and your style, so if youve done an essay before just do it that way- proper structure, full sentances, clear paragraphs and avoid bullet points, introduction, middles bit and conclusion, summary.

Hopefully you will see here your English is better than mine but am thinking most will follow it.

Do you write them essays in English or another language?? Am wondring because you ask for help here with emails but not with writing the most important thing which is essays and coursework.

[gness]

I remember you from when you first joined, Fatema. You're doing brilliantly!
Do keep asking for help here. It's what the site is for and it's nice to read how you're improving and doing so well....x

[FatemaAhmed]

Hi all, thank you for your comments on posts.

Well, I'm trying so hard to improve my English but I don't know why I'm not picking this language, but I'm taking online classes for my course and I participate in every debate and I don't take seriously that people will laugh at my poor English or maybe they are making fun of accent, many times I get stuck during any debate and I apologize with a professor that I'm not able to speak more on this topic.

I complete my all assignments, for that first, I translate my book in my language, Arabic then I write them about in English and then my cousin proofread them, and if there are any errors she highlights them, and after fixing my writing error and send her again for proofread. ( I never take any help for my assignment from anyone)

I'll try that I post here just important questions.

Thank you all who always support me and answer my every question.

@Calda49 thanks for proofreading my email.
@brainiac @bobbinwales @gness thank you so so much for your support and motivation.

[gness]

Remove rude Brainiac from the thanks.....a mistake I'm sure and replace with Bednobs who is very aware of the effort you are making........... ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Your charm and politeness both in asking your questions and your replies Fatema is a joy to see on here - I rarely get to answer as others are too quick.

Best wishes.

[Canary42]

Fatema, your example, while just a little bit clumsy, is perfectly understandable and would stand as suitable in my opinion. But as you are also trying to improve your English (which is already of a higher standard incidentally than many a native) then the first example (calda49) on this thread is more polished.

Good luck in your ongoing studies.

[Atheist]

Good luck, Fatema. My first language is English; my second is French. I love to be helped and I understand that you love to be helped. Good luck.

[JimF]

But please don't begin with just "Dear Professor," - you need to include the professor's surname otherwise the email will sound extremely impersonal.

A decent guide to English grammar (not grammer!) will be very useful too. That way, you'll learn good writing style, such as not putting spaces before punctuation marks like commas and question marks.