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...survey for a thesis writer, send in a missing form, or remind someone about tomorrow’s meeting. The responses come uniformly back: “Thanks!!!” You have to wonder: is the responder really as excited about answering as they sound? In any case, ending ordinary e-mail or text message correspondences in this manner has become increasingly normal. However, it illustrates a dangerous trend in punctuation: the overuse of the exclamation point. Although the more frequent use of this point may appear to just be a better representation of our own exuberance, the consequences...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...your case, we recommend checking out "The Nuclear Option: How to Write a Paper the Night Before It’s Due." If you're having trouble with some of your sources, breeze through "How to Critique an Author Who’s Smarter Than...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Struggling to Finish a Term Paper? | 5/8/2010 | See Source »

...Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...struggled through dinner. Everyone knew something was wrong as I failed to consume the mountain of garlic bread sitting on my plate.  In case you didn’t know, Saturday night is garlic bread night, and the reason Saturday evenings with HUDS will always trump a night out on the Square...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Attack of Captain Red Eye | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...reassurance and the opportunity to take a nap if I needed it. My blockmates stuck with me through a tediously long dinner, and brought me the one thing they knew would make me feel better the next night (’Noch’s, duh). And in case I had ignored my alarm, my ever-vigilant father spent the next two nights waking himself up to call...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Attack of Captain Red Eye | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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