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Punctuating Titles: Italics or “Quotes”?

Punctuating Titles: Italics or “Quotes”?. When to Use Italics/ underlining. Note: When you are handwriting, indicate italics by underlining the title. Never do both italics and underlining. Titles of Books : The Great Gatsby Plays : A Streetcar Named Desire

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Punctuating Titles: Italics or “Quotes”?

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  1. Punctuating Titles: Italics or “Quotes”?

  2. When to Use Italics/underlining • Note: When you are handwriting, indicate italics by underlining the title. Never do both italics and underlining. • Titles of Books: The Great Gatsby • Plays: A Streetcar Named Desire • Very Long Poems: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Periodicals and Newspapers: The WashingtonPost ; The Economist ; Newsweek.

  3. When to Use Italics/underlining • Titles of Works of Art: Starry Night; Mona Lisa • Movies: Star Trek • Radio and TV Series: Downtown Abbey; Deadliest Catch • Video Games: Halo III • Albums/Long Musical Recordings: The Dark Side of the Moon • Comic Strips: Peanuts; Doonsbury

  4. When to Use Italics/underlining • The General Rule: • Put the title in italics (or underline it if handwriting) if it is a long/big work and/or if the work can be broken down into smaller parts (ie. A TV series can be broken into individual episodes; a newspaper is broken up into individual articles.)

  5. When to Use “Quotes” Around a Title • Never use quotes with italics/underlines. It’s always one or the other. • Use quotation marks to enclose titles of short works. • Titles of short stories: “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “To Build a Fire” • Poems: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

  6. When to Use “Quotes” Around a Title • Essays: “A Stranger in the Village” • Articles and Other Parts of Publication: “In Rust Belt, A Teenager’s Climb From Poverty” • Songs: “Money” • Episodes of TV or Radio Series: “Long Sleepless Nights.” • Chapters and Other Parts in a Book: “Epilogue.”

  7. When to Use “Quotes” Around a Title • The general rule: • Use quotation marks to enclose titles of short works (often works that are part of a larger collection).

  8. Elements of Literature -- “The Minister’s Black Veil” • The Washington Post -- “USPS Plans to End Saturday Mail” • Deadliest Catch -- “Long Sleepless Nights” • The Wasteland And Other Poems -- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” • The Dark Side of the Moon -- “Money”

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