Quotation Marks with Titles and Words

1. From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons Series Mini-Lesson #94 Quotation Marks with Titles and Words

2. Use quotation marks to set off titles of short works and titles of parts of long works. • Use quotation marks for titles of essays, short stories, short poems, songs, chapters or section in books, speeches, episodes of radio or television series, and articles in magazines, newspapers, and professional journals. • Other titles are set to italics.

3. Words used in a special sense are enclosed in quotation marks. • It was clear that adults approved of children who were “readers,” but it was not at all clear why this was so. (Annie Dillard, New York Times Magazine) • When a word is referred to as a word, italics, not quotation marks, are used. • How do you pronounce trough. • When you quote a dictionary definition, put the word you are defining in italics and the definition in quotation marks. • To infer means “to draw a conclusion”; to imply means “to suggest.”