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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...