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Using Italics and “ Quotation Marks ” in Titles

Using Italics and “ Quotation Marks ” in Titles. Italics and underlining are the same thing. Italicize Certain Items. 1. Books - To Kill a Mockingbird 2. Epic (long) poems - The Odyssey 3. Plays - Romeo and Juliet 4. Periodicals - Newsweek

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Using Italics and “ Quotation Marks ” in Titles

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  1. Using Italics and“Quotation Marks”in Titles Italics and underlining are the same thing

  2. Italicize Certain Items • 1. Books - To Kill a Mockingbird • 2. Epic (long) poems - The Odyssey • 3. Plays - Romeo and Juliet • 4. Periodicals - Newsweek • 5. Newspapers- Los Angeles Times • 6. Movies - The Departed

  3. Italicize Certain Items • 7. CD/Album titles - Sid Sings • 8. Television series - The Office • 9. Ships - U.S.S. Arizona • 10. Airplanes - Spirit of St. Louis • 11. Spacecraft - Columbia • 12. Paintings/sculptures - Mona Lisa

  4. Italicize Certain Items • 13. Long musical compositions - Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony • 14. Court cases - Brown vs. Board of Education • 15. Genera (species) - Homo sapiens

  5. Quotation Marks • Use quotation marks around the following titles: • Poems - “The Wasteland” • Article - “Exonerated Prisoners Adjust to Life on the Outside” • Short Stories - “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”

  6. Quotation Marks • Songs - “Gone for Good” • Essays - “Freedom and Civil Liberties” So…

  7. How are we supposed to remember all these?

  8. Memorization or… • Try this: If you can buy it, you underline it.

  9. Memorization or… • Try this: If you can’t buy it, use quotation marks.

  10. Articles (a, an, the) • These articles are only italicized when they are part of the title. I read the Los Angeles Times during lunch. My sister gave me a DVD copy of The Notebook.

  11. Do not italicize… • …words that are NOT part of the title. He enjoys reading Time magazine. …or the apostrophe and s in the possessive of italicized words. Roe v. Wade’s impact on the abortion issue has been significant.

  12. Foreign words… • …or words not frequently used in English should be italicized. The denouement is part of a short story’s plot structure. When leaving the beach we said adios to our friends.

  13. Foreign words… • …speaking of foreign words and the English language, remember that English is a constantly evolving language.

  14. Foreign words… • Here is an example of how much our language has changed. • In 1755 Samuel Johnson published what is now considered to be the first dictionary in the English language.

  15. Check this out • And here is the first page:

  16. Some Recent New Words • lol • omg • defriend • ponzu • blog

  17. More use for italics • Italicize words, letters, and numbers used to represent themselves. There is no 9 on his baseball uniform. The word Halloween has two e’s.

  18. The End

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