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 ...

Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and ...

I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...

Sam Altman has announced what he calls a “small but happy win”. His reason? If you tell ChatGPT not to use em dashes, it finally listens. This might sound like a tiny victory in the world of ...

If you spend any time online, you know the em dash has seen a resurgence like no other punctuation mark. Sometimes in the middle of the sentence, sometimes in the end, mostly everywhere. For a couple ...

The dreaded em-dash is one of the biggest giveaways of AI-generated writing. Chatbots love to use it for some reason, potentially giving themselves away. But ChatGPT seems to be offering a workaround ...