Encabezados y saludos en un correo electrónico en inglés

Sending good emails is an important skill in academic and professional contexts. It´s essential to start your emails on the right foot with an appropriate greeting and an engaging opening line.

What Is an Email Header?

An email header is a code snippet that consists of essential details to authenticate an email message. It precedes the email body and also contains information about the sender and recipient.

An email header is the to, from, date, and subject section that precedes an email body,

The opening salutation

Dear Sir or Madam (Estimado señor o señora)

If we do not know the name of the person we are writing to, we should use this salutation. Nevertheless it is advisable to try to discover the name of the person we are going to address the email or letter- We must be careful not to write colon (:) after the salutation, as we do in Spanish, but a coma(,). And even though there is a coma after the salutation, the first word of the email/letter must always start with a capital letter.

The closing salutation

• Yours faithfully ( Atentamente) If we do not know the name of the addressee, we must end this way.
• Yours sincerely (Le saluda atentamente )If we know the name of the addressee, we must end this way.
• Best wishes / Best regards (Saludos),If the person we are writing to is a bussiness aquaintance or friend.

Esta píldora formativa está extraída del Curso online de Redacción de escritos y correos electrónicos en inglés.