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Wow! It's an Interjection!

Interjections are interesting. They exist officially as one of the eight parts of speech, but they stand alone grammatically, unrelated to any other part of a sentence.

The role of interjections is to convey some sort of emotion in your writing. So that begs the question: what types of writing should involve emotion? Creative writing and journal writing can be emotional. These types of writing could very well contain those little, um, interruptions and, heck, outbursts.

But those little eruptions are just annoying and unprofessional in formal writing, which would include book reports and research papers. While you may feel pretty emotional about your topic, you should avoid "letting it out." Keep your feelings out of your professional writing and keep it factual, please!