The Em-Dash and How to Use it

The Emdash is an often over-looked punctuation mark that has a lot of uses. It can be used for subordination or coordination. Meaning the side information added inside the dashes (like you would otherwise use in a rhetorical clause or in parenthesis like this) can be a full sentence, or it can be a fragment.
Dashes are used to add information at the beginning, end, or middle of a sentence. And they come with some added benefits including: mimicking the way Donald Drumpf is always interrupting himself when he's talking, forcing a reader's eyes to dash across a page, and making a sentence stand out.

Indiana Academic Standards
6.W.6.2b: Punctuation –
● Using punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
8.W.6.2b: Punctuation –
● Using punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause, break, or omission.

Ohio Academic Standards
6.2.a
Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/ parenthetical elements.*
8.2.a
Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break.

Music Used: