The use of dashes is inconsistent in lots of writing – regardless of how ‘professional’ the writers are. The hyphen, em dash and en dash crop up all the time while you’re using Microsoft Word, but most of us don’t know why and we use the different dashes inconsistently. I had to figure this out. What do they look like?...
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This article originally ran on PR Daily in March of 2017. For journalists, The Associated Press Stylebook is the industry bible. They live and die by its grammar and style rules, and most have taken numerous journalism school classes to perfect writing in alignment with AP style. AP style errors in press releases are glaringly obvious to reporters and could...
Knowing when to hyphenate numbers is important because the correct use of the hyphen helps your reader to understand which numbers are part of a given adjective and avoids any ambiguity. Let’s look at the example on the left. Is the guy working twenty shifts that are each four hours long, twenty-four shifts that are each an hour long? Or...
ADDISON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE[1])–Hyphen Solutions (“Hyphen” or “the Company”), a market leader in supply chain management services for the North American homebuilding industry, announced today an investment from PWP Growth Equity, a private equity fund managed by Perella Weinberg Partners that invests in leading, growth-oriented, lower middle market companies. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. The partnership with PWP Growth...
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