People sometimes tell me to tell other people what to do, linguistically that is. I’ll get an email saying something like, “It drives me nuts when people say ‘Fruit is a healthy snack’ instead of ...

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 ...

If you want to add parentheses in Excel, here is how you can do that. Although the manual method works pretty well when you want to add round brackets around one or two cells, you can use this guide ...

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 ...

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

There is some alarming news in the ongoing Twitter wars over Jewish people and parentheses. As you may have heard, a couple weeks ago it was revealed that online anti-Semites have been putting ...

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 ...