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''in other words, because “it turns out” is the sort of phrase you would use to convey, for example, something unexpected about a phenomenon you’ve studied exte
by zeynel1 16y ago
''in other words, because “it turns out” is the sort of phrase you would use to convey, for example, something unexpected about a phenomenon you’ve studied extensively—as in the scientist saying “…but the E. coli turned out to be totally resistant”—or some buried fact that you have recently discovered on behalf of your readers—as when the Malcolm Gladwells of the world say “…and it turns out all these experts have something in common: 10,000 hours of deliberate practice”—readers are trained, slowly but surely, to be disarmed by it.''
i —like— writers who use —dashes— extensively
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson#Structure_and_syntax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson#Structure_and_s...
- lionhearted 16y agoI use dashes a lot when I write - it tells a person, keep going, the thought you're about to read is still part of one thought, but separate slightly from the first part of the sentence. While it looks ugly under analysis and would get you marked down by an English teacher, I find it pretty good at communicating quickly and getting points across.
- zeynel1 16y ago--I use dashes a lot when I write-- ive been experimenting with a writing style that used hyphen as the only punctuation - http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/about/ http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/about/ - but i realized that wordpress.com converts hyphens with spaces on either side into en-dashes and two hyphens into em-dashes
- mannicken 16y agoYou should be cautious with dashes -- but not too cautious -- for a very simple reason -- they can confuse your reader, especially if -- well, let me put put this in a form of a joke -- used as many times as I smoke cigarettes per day. There is another useful punctuation mark; most people have seemed to forgot that it exists; you can guess what it is, I suppose.