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 ...

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 ...

There’s a punctuation mark that most people have never heard of or noticed, even though they’ve probably seen it in print 1,000 times. It’s called the en dash, or N dash. And it’s a great example of ...

Without brackets: 'James was taking part in a charity skydive at the weekend.' With brackets: 'James (who was terrified of heights) was taking part in a charity skydive at the weekend.' The sentence ...