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 ...
I spend a considerable part of my day behind a keyboard writing news stories, and over the past few years, I've adopted many different writing styles — the most recent of which integrates em dashes.
It’s part of a broader push to improve everyday writing tools. Why are em dashes linked to AI writing? Some critics argue that AI tools like ChatGPT overuse em dashes, making them a “tell” of ...