The main point of the article is that using formal etiquette in education is beneficial to both the teachers and the students. A major point brought up for students is that it is a good way to teach students how to behave in a professional environment, and that once they’ve learned to do so that can then understand how to act respectfully and responsibly even while in a more informal workplace. Promoting an environment of formal etiquette in the classroom also ensures that teachers are treated with respect by their students.

The message of this paper is to explain to the reader that educators should be treated with
respect and called by their last name, doctor or professor and not by their first name. Also if you
are contacting your professor by email you must use the same level of respect in writing as in
person. The author Worthen supports this thesis by using multiple examples from professionals and professors. A research done by sociologists who conducted a survey on undergraduate
syllabuses from 2004-2010 found that in 2004 14 percent of students conveyed issues related to
classroom etiquette. In 2010 the number rose to 33 percent which is more than double. A
historian by the name John Kasson said that “formal etiquette was not aimed at ensuring respect for all” which means that it was meant to employ codes of behavior which will benefit society as a whole. Anna Lewis was in a Ph.D. Program in English and left to go work for a technology company. She noticed the amount of informality in the company like calling a CEO by his first name, this can mislead young graduates into thinks that this is ok, where in fact you must act professional in order to succeed in the company.

The article ” U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor Like This ” by Molly Worthen. The author points out that students should respect their teachers and call them professor with last name instead of just call the first name. When students email to professor must proofread and in formal ways. Also the author mentions that in many workplace,most of people call their C.E.O or manager by first name. That doesn’t means you have no manner to your boss, because of the American culture.

The article begins with a disgruntled professor who is upset at the lack of respect, and standards students of the current generation show. Those standards being how students communicate with professors informally in emails, as well as calling them on a  first name basis publicly. The author makes the argument that titles in this day in age help “protect disempowered minorities” and “ensure the modern university belongs to all of us.” The author continues to say that having these titles forces students to give the respect that was earned the hard way, regardless of background. the author then plays devil’s advocate, and tries to see how a student would be in the situation to call a professor by their first name. Ultimately though, she concludes communicating on a first name basis “can impede good teaching and mentoring.” As well as “Undermines what the academic titles are meant to convey.” It also gives the idea that the name carries value to those enrolled in higher education. Otherwise , why seek it, if it holds no value?