Quotation Marks and Italics

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• Quotation Marks and Italics

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Rule 1

• Use quotation marks for titles of
• short stories, essays, magazine articles, songs,
  poems, newspaper articles, or book chapter.
• Example
• Teen
• The Girl Escaped

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Rule 2

• Use italics (underlining) for titles of
• a book, play, film, TV show,
• magazine, or newspaper.
• Example
• Teen Magazine
• Lord of the Rings

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Rule 3

• First, last and all important words must be
  capitalized. Prepositions, conjunctions, and
  articles (a, an,the) do not get capitalized in
  the middle of a title.
• Example
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• The Night at the Museum

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Examples

• Quotation Marks or Italics (underline)
• Star Wars
• Punctuation (book chapter)
• My Last Wish (poem)
• People (magazine)

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• Book
• Magazine
• Newspaper
• Poem
• Chapter
• Song
• TV show
• Movie
• Short story
• Play
• Newspaper article

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Practice

• roman empire (book chapter)
• good housekeeping (magazine)
• new york times (newspaper)
• love story (song)
• time to celebrate valentines day
• harry potter and the goblet of fire
• my special valentine (poem)

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Practice

• twas the night before christmas
• romeo and juliet
• the tennessean
• earthquake struck LA
• csi miami
• toy story
• americas got talent