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 ...

All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly ...

Apparently, my favorite punctuation mark – the em dash – is now considered a red flag that I used ChatGPT. If that’s true, I ...

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 ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.

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 ...