Like a great dance partner, punctuation adds rhythm, flow and spice to writing. It allows the reader to glide through a piece of prose naturally. Poor punctuation bogs down a reader. It confuses and ...

If you don't know how to punctuate an adverb clause or couldn't advise someone when to use a semicolon rather than a colon—even with a gun to your head—consider the two standards for punctuation in ...

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 ...

Business communications don’t have to be stuffy, but they should be professional. One way to make sure you look super unprofessional in your written communications is to display overt excitement or ...

Cocogun is leading the human fightback against AI-generated writing, with the introduction of a new punctuation mark: the am dash. Inspired by Descartes’ centuries’ old maxim “I think, therefore I am” ...

A new study shows a sharp decline in the semicolon across English literature—nearly a 50% drop in just two decades. Once a favorite of literary giants like Virginia Woolf, this tiny punctuation mark ...

Emoticons, irregular spellings and exclamation points in text messages aren't sloppy or a sign that written language is going down the tubes -- these 'textisms' help convey meaning and intent in the ...

MAYBE YOU REMEMBER the calico cat who used to slip in at night and use this typewriter and sometimes I would put in the paper what she wrote. A lot of the customers hated that cat and I don't use her ...