A Word, Please: A period could be the cure to your dash addiction
Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...
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How to properly use em dashes, ellipses, and parentheses in writing
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 ...
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You're using that dash wrong
In MS Word, type two hyphens without spaces on either side, and AutoCorrect will replace them with an em dash. Substitutes for it: As I said above, you can also use an en dash with a space on ...