I still think about the feedback I got on one of my first history essays in high school: “good writing, but you rely too much ...

ChatGPT loves the em dash ( — ) the way a Labrador loves a tennis ball — enthusiastically, indiscriminately, and with absolutely no sense of when to let it go. That’s why seeing an em dash used in ...

According to Merriam-Webster — yes, I’m purposefully being cliche, the em dash can be used to separate extra information in place of a comma, colon, or parenthesis. Google Docs will now autocorrect ...

Ah, the em dash. No matter if you’re a novice writer or a seasoned one, you’re likely more than familiar with this punctuation mark. Before the rise of ChatGPT, you probably used it just as often, too ...