An American University study found in 2007 that college students use sentence-ending punctuation marks only 39 percent of the time in texts and 45 percent of the time during instant messaging. That ...

The vital role punctuation marks play in giving meaning, direction and flow to any writing cannot be over emphasised. A carelessly placed comma, hyphen, semi-colon, full colon or quotation mark can ...

For writers at work, punctuation can slip from a matter of convention to one of obsession. I just finished my poetry thesis last week, and I’m embarrassed to admit the number of times I changed ...

Texting is kinda dumb, but unfortunately, it's an unavoidable thing in 2015. Through practice and patience, we learn the careful nuances necessary in crafting a perfect text. It's almost as if vocal ...

"How do you feel about commas after em dashes?" a writer asked on Twitter recently. "For instance: If you want to have a great Sunday—and by 'great' I mean emotionally and spiritually satisfying—, ...

An anecdote about a costly missing comma in a telegram (told various ways) has been a favorite of teachers for years. It is employed to illustrate the effect that even as little as one lone ...

In regard to your Dec. 15 page-one story "Period Piece Punctuates Fear of Elliptical": Of course punctuation matters. Take compound adjectives. I tell my journalism students that I am a white, bearded ...