Positive working relationships with co-workers and colleagues outside of your company are crucial to success in your job. They are also vital with customers and other professionals with whom you ...

The 45th President of the United States is a big fan of a particular type of punctuation – but what does this addiction really mean? Philip Cowell finds out. There is really only one rule when it ...

Especially in texts and emails, the exclamation mark has overtaken the period for a sentence that is meant to have a positive connotation You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

As we gathered punctuation favorites from a range of our favorite writers, novelists, and word-knowledgable people, we ran into a cold, hard fact. Some punctuation marks were hated, perhaps none more ...

In a world where written communication is a key part of everyday life, it is important to understand how your communication style may come across. All too often, people use emojis and extra ...

It was in my first office job that my habit of writing exclamation mark–ridden work emails first came to my attention. My supervisor noticed the pattern and gently asked me to tone it down. At first I ...

Exclamation points used to be something you allowed yourself, a secret weapon unsheathed only at a rare and necessary moment, like Wolverine’s adamantium claws. To throw them around willy-nilly was a ...

The full stop has begun to disappear, and I blame the exclamation mark. Oh, OK, the exclamation mark may not be completely responsible for this development, but it's certainly played its part, and ...