A text might not necessarily have any sort of strong conclusion, but then the reader sees a centered fleuron right after it ...

Do you really need punctuation, spell-check and proper grammar when chatting with AI? I’ve tested how being polite alters response, so I just had to know if the tone and content of chatbot replies ...

British bestseller is finding fans in U.S. too. Read an excerpt of Lynne Truss' book, 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.' There’s a new British invasion coming to ...

It’s hard to believe the year we have had. Even harder that a punctuation mark could help explain it. But when you consider the history of the interrobang—a largely forgotten symbol that marries both ...

Your words are your most powerful weapons, and yet it’s easy to undermine yourself in written communication by violating some very simple rules of punctuation. Before I dive deeper into this, a ...

What’s a novel without its words? Just punctuation. But when you take those lines of commas, periods, exclamation points, and quotes, then arrange them in a big spiral, you can still tell something of ...

Marketing efforts tend to be focused around images, videos, stories, and few people give a thought to the role of the humble full stop or comma. Alex Darmon explains why there’s more to punctuation ...

While we all slip up from time to time, there are some basic punctuation mistakes you should never make in formal writing. For example, don't confuse "it's" and "its," don't use an apostrophe to ...

A poet I know, reluctant to define what poetry can or can’t be, once suggested (somewhat facetiously) that a bag of dirt could be a poem if the poet deemed it so — calling to mind Marcel Duchamp’s ...