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 ...
Punctuation marks are the flesh and bones of every modern written language. Sometimes, missing out a comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence (for example, “Let’s eat Grandpa!” means ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Parentheses are useful. As the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) notes on the World Wide Web (WWW ...