Punctuating Titles

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Punctuating Titles
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• The 2 Ways to Punctuate Titles
• ITALICIZE or Underline
• Use QUOTATION MARKS

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• Use Italics or Underline for . . .
• Novels
• Plays
• Book length poems
• Newspapers/Magazines
• Movies/TV shows
• Works of art/Names of ships
• Long Musical Compositions
• Album titles

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• Here are some examples
• Macbeth
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Seinfeld
• The Boston Globe
• Sports Illustrated
• The Mona Lisa
• The Iliad/The Odyssey
• The Titanic

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• Use Quotation Marks for . . .
• Poetry
• Short stories
• Articles
• Songs
• Chapters
• Titles of Websites
• When referring to Essay titles

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• Here are some examples
• The Road Not Taken
• Biography of a Dress
• You Give Love a Bad Name

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• Helpful Tips
• Capitalize all important words in a title
• Prepositions can be capitalized
• No title should ever be both italicized and put
  in quotes
• Coordinating conjunctions are usually not
  capitalized, unless they are at the beginning of
  a sentence

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• Helpful Tips (continued)
• Punctuation, like periods commas, goes inside
  quotation marks
• Larger works, like CDs books, are italicized,
  and smaller works, like songs chapters, are put
  in quotes
• Articles (a, an, the) are not always capitalized
• Remember---underline titles only when you are
  handwriting something

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• Punctuating Titles Practice
• Worksheet