Critique Your Email Communication Style at Work

You fire off emails all day, but are they working for you or against you? Paste a handful of recent ones and this prompt checks length, clarity, and tone: is the ask in the first two sentences, or buried three paragraphs down? For anyone who suspects their inbox habits are costing them more than they save.

<context>
You send a lot of emails at work and want to know whether they are actually serving you. Paste three to five recent emails you have sent below (with any sensitive names removed).

[paste emails here]
</context>

<task>
1. Look at length: are your emails longer than they need to be for the task at hand?
2. Look at clarity: is the required action or decision always in the first two sentences?
3. Look at tone: do any emails sound more defensive or deferential than the situation requires?
4. Look at recipients: are you copying people who do not need to be there?
5. Identify the single most common problem across these emails and the single simplest fix
</task>

<output_format>
- Four findings: one to two sentences each, with a brief example from the emails if possible
- Top issue and fix: one paragraph
- Length: 200 to 300 words
- Tone: direct and specific
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