Dear Writers: ‘Leave the Damn Em Dash Alone’

Might one overused punctuation threaten the integrity of modern prose? Noreen Malone thinks so, and she points to the em dash as culprit. But wait, “doesn’t a dash—if done right—let the writer maintain an elegant, sinewy flow to her sentences?” she asks in her anti-em-dash essay at Slate…

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Dear Writers: ‘Leave the Damn Em Dash Alone’

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