Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

Teachers can use these ideas to gauge students’ confidence and see if they accurately understand how much they’re learning.

But Sachs’s exclamations don’t ring with authorial self-satisfaction. His marks (and comma splices) backdate the prose and give it the desired texture of German in translation—another joke ...

Are you a dashaholic? It’s a thing, apparently. I’m more of a colon abuser myself: as if everything I write is so important ...

When our kids were small, we moved to a new school district in time for my son to start kindergarten. As I was filling out his new student paperwork, I realized, unexpectedly, that our new district ...

Unscrambling words can be difficult if you haven’t done it very often. We’re including some tips that will hopefully improve your Jumble abilities. The Jumble was created by Martin Naydel, who was ...