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 ...

Narrator: It can be used in a number of ways. To show a word, or words, have been removed from a quote. Brain likes cake, which he never shares, he has one in the cupboard. If the middle section isn’t ...

This generational texting habit might be worse than using capital letters. When typing a large paragraph, older adults might use what has been dubbed “Boomer ellipses” — multiple dots in a row also ...

This is an excerpt from Post copy editor Bill Walsh’s monthly Grammar Geekery chat, which takes place the first Tuesday of each month. Chatters wanted to explore the many punctuation marks that ...

Generational divides often surface in the most unexpected ways. One such rift has emerged over the use of ellipses in text messages, a punctuation quirk predominantly attributed to Baby Boomers and ...

I have been thinking about the changing nature of the ellipsis as a grammatical device. A few days ago, I was going over a draft of a graphic novel I am about to send to the publisher. It is called ...