Prof. Manner’s Guide to Academic Etiquette

In trying to find an answer to the question I ask below—is it courteous or discourteous to send a professor a Graziemail?—I stumbed on The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette (Daniel Hamermesh, 1992). A search for a similar document authored or published by the MLA yielded nothing.
Come now! Some mannerly eminence must be sufficiently [...]

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A question of etiquette: Thank-you notes for panel rejections?

Last month I submitted abstracts to MLA panels, for the first time. The (perfectly polite) rejections have begun rolling in, and carry with them a little conundrum: I am ecstatic that these experts have looked over my abstracts, so do I thank them for the rejection? Or does a thank-you email add another short task [...]

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