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This tag is for questions specifically related to written English. PROOFREADING essays, emails, abstracts, etc. is strictly OFF-TOPIC.
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Is it correct to use a tilde (~) in a paper as punctuation meaning “sort of identical to”?
I don't know the context or why you think this information needs to be included here in that manner, but in general I feel rather strongly that people use parentheses to include unnecessary details fa …
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