How would this email look to my Accounting professor? If you were the professor, how would you respond?

At least change “wave of the future” to “way of the future”. Why exactly is it important to you to not submit it in the conventional way? Is there a particular reason, or are you just trying to be smart and get noticed?

What your basically saying to them is that you dont want the cost of printing out your own assessment, however your more then happy for he/she to print it out to mark it…because they do have to print it to grade it…Theres a reason they make you do it.

If I were your accounting professor, I would respond by inquiring about your English studies.

The prof can likely print your work at the office and thereby transfer the cost to the school. However, it does add some work on their part. When I was in school if you submitted your work electronically, it was corrected and returned to you the same way. If your assignments lend themselves to electronic correction, and you are content with this form of feedback, it would be good to include this in your email.

Also, I’d drop the bit at the end about your misunderstanding the length of the assignment. It doesn’t help your cause and is open to misinterpretation.

I would ask you to follow my instructions and print it out.

Your writing style is pretty informal, and while that might be okay for certain professors, the fact that you are emailing them a question like this means that you don’t know them very well. Try to rewrite the email to be more formal, business-like, and professional.

Why are you including that gratuitously insulting PS?

All you are attempting to do is pas the work of printing the homework onto the professor. I think it is doomed to failure. Also, I think if you are serious, you should ask first before just sending your homework in electronically.

Now that you are not responsible for the ink useage and paper, your professor has been dumped with this responsibility. in other words, you should be paying this bill and not him. even if your professor agreed to this arrangement, he is still going to have to download a copy. this is another cost placed upon your professor…....blank cds. your idea, in theory, is okay. as your professor, i would not/could not bear the burden of the cost involved for many students. as a college student, this is your responsibility.

I’ve found that professors are pretty inflexible about their project submission policies.

Drop the PS
the rest of it seems a little haughty to me
If I were the professor and this didn’t really present a problem for me, I’d mark you off as ‘trying to be a smartass’ in my book and let you do it.

I agree with @Simone_De_Beauvoir, do you really want to come off inn a negative light to someone who will determine your grade? I would take out all of your attitude, turn in the first assignment as asked and ask them in person or through e-mail if online submissions are acceptable without making it sound like you know so much better than them.

I would probably submit the first assignment in hard copy and then ask the professor in class, or after class, whether s/he will accept assignments through e-mail. I know a lot of the instructors at my class stipulate that assignments should be submitted through e-mail, but at this point at least, it is up to the teacher.