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Ragan: Em dashes are abrupt. They stand out, demand recognition and alert readers that the words to come are important. Em dashes are bold and sometimes unsettling, loudly ushering parenthetical statements into a sentence.

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Work: Writers beware: Em dashes are overused and misunderstood

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