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Get the title right!

Get the title right!. Underline/Italicize titles of. Books Long poems Periodical titles (newspapers, magazines, journals) Plays Movies TV series All visual art (painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, etc.) Ships. Make sure you…. Underline the letters and spaces

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Get the title right!

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  1. Get the title right!

  2. Underline/Italicize titles of • Books • Long poems • Periodical titles (newspapers, magazines, journals) • Plays • Movies • TV series • All visual art (painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, etc.) • Ships

  3. Make sure you… • Underline the letters and spaces The Great GatsbyCORRECT TheGreatGatsbyINCORRECT

  4. Underline or Italicize? When handwriting  underline When typing  italicize

  5. Put in quotation marks • Chapter titles • Essays • Short Poems • Short stories • Articles in a periodical • Songs • TV episodes • Titles of a webpage

  6. Exceptions • Foundational religious texts are neither italicized, underlined or put in quotation marks. This includes: the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the Book of Mormon, the Vedas

  7. Putting it all together This weekend I watched the “Cleaning Up” episode of The Wire. Hamlet is my favorite Shakespearean play and I also love his “Sonnet 18”. Did you read “Allies Intensify Barrage in Libya” in The New York Times yesterday? I listened to “Ring of Fire” in my car this morning. We read Everybody Poops, The Iliad, the Bible and “The Story of an Hour”.

  8. And while we’re at it... # RULES • Write out all numbers less than 11. • Never begin a sentence with a number that is not spelled out • This includes a year, a percentage, ANY NUMBER

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