Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...
The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.
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Yes, em dashes are legal — So what’s the fuss about their use?
I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...
Parenthesis is adding extra information to a sentence using brackets, dashes or commas. This technique should be familiar to you as you will have studied it at 3rd level. Use this guide to revise and ...
Are you a dashaholic? It’s a thing, apparently. I’m more of a colon abuser myself: as if everything I write is so important it requires the colon’s drumroll effect. I’ve known more than a few comma ...
Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in particular ...
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