For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...

I spend a considerable part of my day behind a keyboard writing news stories, and over the past few years, I've adopted many different writing styles — the most recent of which integrates em dashes.

The extra-long hyphen known as the em dash is common in AI-generated text. While some writers have responded by choosing to avoid the punctuation mark, others are fighting back. If you're reading ...

Q: I’m confused. What is the difference between an em dash and an en dash? How can I type them easily using Microsoft Word? A: A dash is not a hyphen, although many writers err by substituting one for ...

Gwen Egan is a digital producer at Globe Opinion. AI writing is everywhere — emails, college essays, even wedding vows — and it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect when a piece of ...

I’ve been told that I use too many dashes. My high school AP Language and Composition teacher would often draw an X through each dash I used in my essays, suggesting that they detracted from the ...

The author is a columnist at the JoongAng Sunday and head of content strategy at Korea JoongAng Daily. In the past year, a curious debate has flared up in the world of English writing: Whether the em ...