As a student, you have a lot of options for communicating with your professor. However, the easiest and quickest is the email. The important thing here is remember to write professionally. Your professor can be a mentor and guide through your career. Communicating with your professor builds this relationship and can be further practice for communicating with our employers.
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Corrigan, Paul T. and Cameron Hunt McNabb. (2015). “Re: Your Recent Email to Your Professor.” https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/16/advice-students-so-they-dont-sound-silly-emails-essay
“Email Etiquette.” https://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/Email-Etiquette.html
Wood, Wini. “How to Email a Professor.” (2008). Wellesley College. http://web.wellesley.edu/SocialComputing/Netiquette/netiquetteprofessor.html
“How to Email a Research Professor.” University of California, Santa Cruz. https://ugr.ue.ucsc.edu/email