Or rather, it’s attributable to women’s fears they will appear cold and unfriendly if they don’t use it, according to the study’s co-author Cheryl Wakslak, associate professor of management at the ...

I was scanning the first draft of an all-staff office memo I had written the other day, trying to strike the just-right balance between exuberance and self-dignity. I reserved the most scrutiny for my ...

If you have been walking the punctuational fine line with your exclamation points – teetering between “I’m-mad-at-you” on the one hand and “I’m-crazy” on the other – join the club. I mean, join the ...

LONDON: I used to think there were two sorts of people in the world: those who used exclamation marks in their work emails and those who did not. I also thought that frequent users of what Americans ...

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 ...

OSLO, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most scientific studies - even those with remarkable findings - have long had their wider appeal dimmed by unremarkable titles. But as researchers - who ...