I had an English professor in college who once explained why we should never use exclamation points. “Let the words in the sentence convey the intensity,” he said. “Not the exclamation point.” The ...

Are you a "serial exclamation pointer?" You can admit it if you are. (Really! You can!) You're certainly not alone. Plenty of us get trigger-happy when it comes to using exclamation points — ...

For years, I resisted the exclamation point. In emails, I typed “Hi”; not “Hi!” “8:30”; not “8:30!” And “Disregard previous email. I found a large binder clip”; not “Disregard previous email!! I found ...

Back when I was in school and learning to write, I was taught that exclamation points should be used sparingly. Unless someone is literally screaming in agony or a war has just ended, adding one makes ...

Exclamation points used to be a rare signal of extreme intensity. Now they're everywhere, from news headlines to business emails and text messages. Thanks to our smartphone-obsessed culture, the ...

We have already covered the difficult question of how to use emojis in the workplace. Now I will be leading you through an advanced course on whether or not you should use exclamation points. But ...

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Despite what some might think, journalism is full of rules. We have rules for sourcing, attribution, recording conversations and even rules about buying our own lunch. In writing, most of us defer to ...

Are you a "serial exclamation pointer?" You can admit it if you are. (Really! You can!) You're certainly not alone. Plenty of us get trigger-happy when it comes to using exclamation points — ...