Email Tips:

• Avoid sms jargon.
• Avoid addressing anyone as "Respected". Its quite old fashioned. Use "Dear", "Hi", "Hello", "Namaskar", "Vanakkam", "Shalom", etc.

Tips for Research Paper Writing

Presentation Tips:

• Stick to your time limit strictly.
• Number of slides must strictly be less than the time limit in minutes.
• Avoid writing long sentences on the slides. Keep slides clutter-free.
• Presentation should reflect your understanding and not just knowledge of results.
• No need to go into details of mathematical equations unless absolutely necessary.
• Have lots of colorful figures.
• Give more stress to discussion.

Classroom tips for students:

• An easy way to keep awake in class is to participate actively.
  • Feel free to ask questions if you don't understand something.
  • If someone else asks a question, take initiative to answer it yourself even before the teacher asks you to.
• Teachers are not rock-stars. A boring class may still be very useful!

Classroom tips for teachers:

• Most students have a very short attention span. Try to have some activities every 10-15 mins.
• Try to reduce the weightage of exams and have more assignments where students work in groups.
• The assignments should have some design element which will motivate the students to do it on their own instead of blindly copying.
• Most students will never use most of what you teach. Emphasize on developing analytical and thinking skills rather than gaining mastery over a specific subject.
• Give the students an opportunity to choose the topics that they want to learn.
• Read : Why don't students like school? by Daniel Willingham
• The Socratic Method
  
• Peer Instruction for Active Learning
  
• Creativity in Engineering Education