Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses.

Could the hackneyed use of ellipses … end it all? Fitzgerald wasn’t the only early-20 th -century wordsmith to notice that an ellipsis could gin up suspense.

Copy editor Bill Walsh explains which punctuation marks can be used to create a dramatic pause -- and how to use them correctly.