Writing assignment 5: email for Permissions
Write an email asking permissions to use a specific resource (in our case, an article or image that is copyrighted).
- Include the recipient's email address at the top (for example, [email protected]) for images from the Schlesinger library.
- Write emails that are to and from real people. If you don't know the recipient and can't discover it, please put a salutation like "To whom it may concern."
- Refer to the pictures you want specifically (for example, "Photograph Number: A25-44-1: Portrait of Charles and Kathleen Norris dressed as a couple ca. 1860, enclosed in a Christmas card" (For artstore images, this information is available for each picture if you open it and print it)). There are at least three photos of Norris at the Schlesinger library, which you can access from campus (link on Blackboard in images folder).
- Try to specific about the use:
- Explain that the resource will be used on an academic society site.
- List the site’s curator, Dr. Carter
- Explain that the site is maintained and hosted by a university
- Detail the audience it will address
- Explain the kind of use you'd like--reproducing the resource, quoting, including author contact info, etc.
- Mention the fact that the resource will not be used for commercial purposes.
Make it a text email, not an html email. Try to lay out the email according to the principles in the YSG chapter on emails.