tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876524428745638996.post398834867407382305..comments2024-01-24T16:57:52.487-05:00Comments on Writing Unleashed with Laura M. Harkins: Pen Pals of the FutureLaura M. Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118305776404765529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876524428745638996.post-47060371711596512932011-02-22T22:37:30.439-05:002011-02-22T22:37:30.439-05:00Thank you! My email writing improved during my fi...Thank you! My email writing improved during my first internship over the summer. I wrote emails for the English professor I worked with as he dictated. I'm still working on the balance between formal and informal. My sister, who lives 5 hours away in PIttsburgh, and I write back and forth to one another through email, especially when our schedules conflict and we can't talk on the phone.Laura M. Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07118305776404765529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876524428745638996.post-24317161671541168392011-02-17T10:06:09.654-05:002011-02-17T10:06:09.654-05:00You rock my socks!!!! I agree that there's so...You rock my socks!!!! I agree that there's something to be said about social media as the new way to get to know people. But as nerdy and old-fashioned that I am, I would have to agree with your teacher-self that it's important to teach people the art and power of letter-writing. We still send job inquiry letters. We still write business letters. We still write our grandparents letters. Why not send each other letters, too? Or emails? Sometimes it's a stretch to get complete sentences in emails that I receive now a-days.<br /><br />When I was a kid, I had a penpal too, but she was way more into it than I was. She would send me origami cranes, those little fortune-teller paper thingys (you know what I'm talking about, right?) and hundreds of other little crafty things stuffed inside of an envelope. I would send a letter. Oops, missed the memo.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00961332983813359209noreply@blogger.com