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March 29, 2024

How to use AI to help you write better emails

Professional communication often entails emailing colleagues, clients, collaborators, and various stakeholders. Whether you’re sharing updates, summarizing productive meetings, or seeking information, it’s crucial that your messages are effective, clear, and grammatically correct. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can improve your email writing by generating drafts, offering edits, and providing suggestions. Learn how to leverage AI as your email assistant, elevating your writing quality and ensuring your intended message is clearly and effectively understand by its recipients.

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Why does the quality of your email writing matter?

Since its inception, emails have been important form of communication, especially in business and professional contexts. Emails are sent from contractors to clients, supervisors to employees, professor to students, and in countless other interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, in the digital age, emails are highly accessible on a variety of devices including computers, tablets, and smartphones. Due to it being a conventional and widespread form of communication, being able to craft an intentional, well-written email is important and necessary. An email may contain assignments, updates, or sensitive information that needs to be effectively communicated, so its recipients can respond appropriately. Effective email writing saves time, avoids misunderstandings, and helps to build credibility and strong work relationships.

How can you utilize AI for email writing?

AI-powered software, such as Microsoft Copilot, offers capabilities that can enhance your email writing. Here are several ways AI can improve your emails:

Correct grammar and spelling

After drafting an email, you can input it into your preferred AI-powered tool. AI can identify grammar and spelling errors, ensuring that your writing is polished and easily understood. AI may also be able to determine words that are spelled correctly, but used incorrectly, which a traditional spell check program may overlook.

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Provide suggestions for tone and style

When seeking email assistance from AI, you can request tone and style suggestions. By providing details about the intended audience and content, AI can adjust the tone for formality, maintain consistency, and enhance the clarity of your writing. Of course, you’ll be able to customize the verbiage to suit your purposes, but the suggestions can be a great way to get started.

Write emails in bulk

For bulk email distribution, AI-powered tools can be leveraged to swiftly draft content, saving time. You can specify the required content, and AI can generate emails promptly. If you’re concerned about the \writing lacking a human touch, you can individually edit emails to add personality.

Optimize your subject line

The email subject line is the initial impression your recipient receives before opening your email. It significantly impacts whether your email is read or disregarded. AI can analyze subject lines and propose enhancements to boost open rates, such as using compelling language that instills urgency, or incorporating relevant keywords. It can also help avoid triggers that might divert your email to spam, ensuring successful delivery.

Automate responses and templates

AI can streamline responses to routine emails by crafting automated responses and templates. By analyzing context and intent, AI can generate personalized responses to incoming emails. AI email automation can handle out-of-office notifications, address recurring queries, and manage various other scenarios efficiently.

AI-generated and assisted email writing can save time, energy, and ensure effective message delivery to your audience. Step into the future of workplace communication by integrating AI into your email writing. For more ways to improve your email writing, learn more writing tips.

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