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Submitting Assignments by E-Mail Attachment

Important: Although regular e-mail is suitable for correspondence and informal submissions to your professors, formal papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments to preserve your word processor's formatting.

Whenever you are submitting assignment electronically, you should

  1. Retain electronic copies of your work in at least two separate places, e.g., on your hard drive and on some portable medium.

  2. Use the feature on your e-mail program that requests notification when the e-mail is delivered.

  3. Send a copy of the e-mail to yourself, and check immediately to see that the attachment was transmitted properly and that it is the attachment you meant to send.

Creating an Attachment:

  1. Complete your work as you ordinarily would using your word processing software. Give it a specific and descriptive name so that you won't confuse it with all the other files called "paper" on your hard drive.

  2. If you are working in Word®, save your work as you ordinarily would. If you are working in any other wordprocessing software, please save your work as a Word® file (*.doc or *.docx) or in Rich Text Format (*.rtf).

  3. Open your e-mail program and address your e-mail.

  4. Click on the Attachment command on the button bar or pull down menu.

  5. Browse to the file you just saved and click to attach.

  6. Click Send.

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