A colon should follow ‘IE,’ and commas would come in handy after ‘exposed’ and ‘change.’ ‘You’re’ is a contraction that means ‘you are;’ ‘your’ is the possessive form of ‘you.’ If we use our noodles, ...

Punctuation marks may be small, but they carry a lot of weight—shaping tone, clarifying meaning and even signaling the writer’s personality. I adore the em dash; I tend to be a bit of a drama queen ...