VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE RESPOND

[katryxx]

How would you punctuate the sentence below? Edit, reword, rewrite as appropriate, but punctuation is what really counts. I'm known to be comma-happy, and I know there are too many included, but I can't figure out where to omit them to have the most correct sentence left. PLEEZ HALP.

The sentence:

For me, teaching in general, and the topic of

Comments

[aniccata]

Teaching in general--and the subject of science in particular--necessarily involves a multidirectional flow of information.

Those are em dashes, with which I have fallen in love. I think "for me" can be removed unless ABSOLUTELY necessary, because it's probably implied and I wouldn't use a comma before the em dashes.

[katryxx]

Ooh, awesome.

[katryxx]

Wait, are those single dashes or double dashes? Does it matter?

[cubetime]

They're em dashes. They're longer than the hyphen, the minus sign, and the en dash. In LaTeX, they can be created by typing---where you want the dash to occur. In MSWord, I think you type--between the words you want it to appear, and it converts that to an em dash automatically.

When punctuating with the em dash, do not include any spacing on either side. It should be immediately adjacent to the surrounding words.

[aniccata]

Oh wow, that does work in MSWord. Awesome! I'd been doing ctrl-alt-hyphen, but this is much easier.