Editing, Revision, and Introduction

Yesterday you submitted (or should be finishing) a minimum of seven questions for an outside expert in your field. Before you start searching for experts to contact you need to revise your questions for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. You need to make sure all your words are spelled correctly with proper capitalization. If we are going to ask people for help we need to convince them with both the questions we and how we ask them. Appearances are incredibly important when dealing with new people and new circumstances.

Based on the questions I've seen so far, everyone needs to go to their SENT box and open the email with the questions. Copy and Paste the questions into a new email and use the CHECK SPELLING feature in the top right of the tool bar. Send the questions again to me AND your feedback partner to double-check your spelling and grammar.

When you have finished revising your questions, you need to write a brief introductory preface for the email that you will send out to potential experts in your field. The preface should cover the following items:

• Introduce yourself and explain that you are working on an independent portfolio project at Brooklyn Prep High School.
  
• Explain how your project connects back to you and your interests.
• Explain how you discovered the person, group, or business's contact information.
• Ask them if they (or someone they know) would be willing to share their experience with you through a short email interview.
  
• Thank them in advance for any help that they may provide in your efforts.

Please save the preface as NAME_preface in your Google Documents and share the file with me.