i use a lot of em dashes like a lot i talk in what i call asides—like shakespeare—and so i ended up writing for school in the same way im a writer now and ive sort of just adapted it and adopted it into an actual conversational writing style      when i was a freshman in college i became friends with my philosophy class ta and she told me that being friends with me helped her read my papers because once she had my voice in her head everything flowed very smoothly that was a turning point for me in a lifetime of teachers trying to force that habit out of me and i started learning how to make it better and more clear without having to know me personally