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 ...

What to do with punctuation in and around parentheses? Does it go outside (like this)? Or should it stay inside? (See examples in this episode of Comma Queen.) ...

Mary Norris, the Comma Queen, explains the order of operations for punctuation marks in asides and afterthoughts.

Formulas in Microsoft Excel can contain a wide range of symbols, such as the asterisk (*), the question mark (?), and the "at" (@) sign. Among the most important are parentheses, square brackets, and ...

Ironically, C&EN’s Oct. 17 issue (which features the cover title “Too Much Plastic?”) contains nomenclature errors on polymeric materials. The first occurs in a letter to the editor titled “Vanilla ...

Every week, Talking Points gives you a worksheet to practise your reading comprehension with exercises about the story we’ve written. Readers in Hong Kong saved a French bookshop that was in danger of ...