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Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses.
In this English article, learn how to use brackets, dashes and commas correctly when showing parenthesis in your writing.
Grammar columnist and expert June Casagrande dives into why we use the em dash and the AI myths associated with it.
McCarthy isn’t an em dash guy himself—more of a “three words and a period” guy. His prose style resembles an Ernest Hemingway who has still killed himself but managed to keep writing.
Grammar and punctuation can be tricky when you’re writing. If you’re not sure what all those dashes are or how to use them, this video clearly explains the differences between the hyphen ...
A debate surrounds the em dash, dubbed the 'ChatGPT hyphen'. Gen Z and social media users link it to AI content. However, ...
When writing formal documents and publications, it is best to use dashes correctly, but in magazines and web media, the appearance of 'space, en dash, space' is often preferred, and the em dash is ...
She didn't have a problem with anyone using AI to write for them, but rather urged people to edit the em dashes out afterward for readability.
Columnist Maria Vazquez argues when detecting AI usage, we risk erasing the very elements that make writing human — voice and ...