Will em dashes doom my child's applications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a professional writer and I like them, too.

Is the comma necessary?

Is it necessary? No. Does it work well there? Yes.

-- professional writer, but not the PP

It's now writer's choice when it comes to a comma before "too."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD loves em dashes for word count reason. And "A/B" in place of "A and B" whenever appropriate. And "I'll" instead of "I will." Not sure if this will doom her. Hope not.

Em dashes are fine. The contractions are not.

Contractions make an essay more casual - which is what AO want.

- Former T20 reader

Agreed.

- Former T50 reader

[Anonymous]

Lots of alleged professional writers chiming in to champion poor writing.

Another example of enshittification?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD loves em dashes for word count reason. And "A/B" in place of "A and B" whenever appropriate. And "I'll" instead of "I will." Not sure if this will doom her. Hope not.

Em dashes are fine. The contractions are not.

Contractions make an essay more casual - which is what AO want.

- Former T20 reader

Agreed.

- Former T50 reader

Ditto!

- Former T5 Reader

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD loves em dashes for word count reason. And "A/B" in place of "A and B" whenever appropriate. And "I'll" instead of "I will." Not sure if this will doom her. Hope not.

Em dashes are fine. The contractions are not.

Contractions make an essay more casual - which is what AO want.

- Former T20 reader

Agreed.

- Former T50 reader

Ditto!

- Former T5 Reader

Definitely

- Former T1 reader

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD loves em dashes for word count reason. And "A/B" in place of "A and B" whenever appropriate. And "I'll" instead of "I will." Not sure if this will doom her. Hope not.

Em dashes are fine. The contractions are not.

Contractions make an essay more casual - which is what AO want.

- Former T20 reader

Agreed.

- Former T50 reader

Ditto!

- Former T5 Reader

Definitely

- Former T1 reader

Disagree.

- Former president of Harvard

[Anonymous]

to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

Not sure where you get your info. People use em dashes in papers and in published scholarly writing all the time. I have absolutely no problem with them.
-college professor in the humanities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

Not sure where you get your info. People use em dashes in papers and in published scholarly writing all the time. I have absolutely no problem with them.
-college professor in the humanities

Well, I’m a harvard law grad and a college consultant. Try again. It’s sloppy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

Not sure where you get your info. People use em dashes in papers and in published scholarly writing all the time. I have absolutely no problem with them.
-college professor in the humanities

Well, I’m a harvard law grad and a college consultant. Try again. It’s sloppy

+1. Also my DD applied T Oxford successfully twice for an MOhil and DPhil. And then got into Harvard law. There were no hyphens in her essays. No, I wasn’t t involved. We hired a professional to coach

[Anonymous]

Em dashes are an affectation that make essay look bad, regardless of AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

Not sure where you get your info. People use em dashes in papers and in published scholarly writing all the time. I have absolutely no problem with them.
-college professor in the humanities

Well, I’m a harvard law grad and a college consultant. Try again. It’s sloppy

+1. Also my DD applied T Oxford successfully twice for an MOhil and DPhil. And then got into Harvard law. There were no hyphens in her essays. No, I wasn’t t involved. We hired a professional to coach

Who did you hire to get her through law school? And to coach her through her first job after law school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

Not sure where you get your info. People use em dashes in papers and in published scholarly writing all the time. I have absolutely no problem with them.
-college professor in the humanities

Well, I’m a harvard law grad and a college consultant. Try again. It’s sloppy

Not interested in an opinion from a sloppy writer like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to OP. You know the answer. It’s sloppy. Talk to your high school counselor. They will tell her to cut it out and use proper pronunciation. Do you think her future professors in college want to see that in a paper? No they do not

Not sure where you get your info. People use em dashes in papers and in published scholarly writing all the time. I have absolutely no problem with them.
-college professor in the humanities

Well, I’m a harvard law grad and a college consultant. Try again. It’s sloppy

How about missing end of sentence punctuation? How does that look 😆

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD loves em dashes for word count reason. And "A/B" in place of "A and B" whenever appropriate. And "I'll" instead of "I will." Not sure if this will doom her. Hope not.

Silly tricks won't paper over her inability to write concisely as directed.