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 ...

Em dashes function like commas ... In English, en dashes are used when Japanese would use a wave dash, such as 'pages 128 to 134.' The exceedingly complex recipe spans pages 128–34.

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not ...

While spaces aren’t required when using em dashes, Reed said she’s noticed it feels very ChatGPT-coded to leave them out. The ...

"I - keep - seeing - weird - long - dashes - in - posts," wrote a LinkedIn user on her page several months ago. "Yes, this is ...

And that’s likely why it’s become a so-called “tell.” The em dash is ChatGPT’s default dash. Probably because it was trained ...