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 ...

This is a column about nothing. It’s kind of like a show about nothing, just less entertaining — and a lot less lucrative. The nothing we’re talking about is the blank space around punctuation. And ...

From Slate: "Dashes — useful and lovely though they are — are not … ellipses. They excel at representing interruptions, trains of thought abruptly shorn off. Meanwhile, an ellipsis trails away ...

AP style explicitly advises against following an organization’s full name with an abbreviation in parentheses unless the ...

Today on his website, Morrisseycentral.com, Morrissey released a statement in response to widespread criticism that followed his donning of a far right wing British political party’s pin during a ...

As a rule, I prefer to make fun of myself rather than make fun of others, but in my previous column I departed from my usual approach. I poked a little fun at people who use dots and dashes as default ...