Punctuation: Important for academic and published writing. Also, it's worth doing right if you simply want to be understood.

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Punctuation: Important for academic and published writing. Not a bad idea if you just want to be understood.

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En dash, em dash and hyphen; what’s the difference? (also ndash and mdash, or n-dash and m-dash)

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The en dash is used inconsistently within lots of writing – regardless of how 'professional' the writers are. The hyphen, em dash and en dash are everywhere, but most of us don’t know when or why to …

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Should I use punctuation after a URL?

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This seems to be a common problem: When you write a web address at the end of a sentence, should you follow it with punctuation, or use no punctuation? If I use punctuation after a URL will it …

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