Practical exercise
Rewrite a six line email into three
Most Pakistani professional emails are twice as long as they need to be. Today you take a real one, cut the wallpaper out, and end up with the same meaning in half the words. The skill builds in the editing, not the writing.
25 min·starter
Now try it
Rewrite a six line email into three
Stretch
Take an actual email you sent in the last month and rewrite it the same way. Send the rewritten version to a friend with the original on top, and ask which they would have responded to first.
Goes into your portfolio
A Google Doc titled email-rewrite-1 with the before and after versions of the email plus a one paragraph reflection on what was hardest to cut.