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"For particularly heated issues, I recommend avoiding telephone conversations because e-mail provides better documentation of exactly how the other person interacted with you"

I just can't agree with that. In my experience sending email and avoiding face to face meetings is the quickest way to create misunderstandings and make a bad situation worse. I completely agree with sending summary emails to document conversations but when things are going wrong you need to meet face to face, not play email tennis.