Freewrite

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Freewrite

• Take 10 mins to write about the Boston bombing
  yesterday.
• How do you feel about it? What do you think
  Americans should do about it? Etc.

• Just seconds after the first explosion rocked the
  area near the Boston Marathon finish line at
  about 250 p.m., there was a second blast a few
  blocks away on Boylston Street

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Punctuating Titles
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When Do I Underline or Italicize?Remember
Never do both!

• Titles of Books
• Titles of Magazines
• Titles of Newspapers
• Titles of Plays
• Titles of Films
• Titles of Encyclopedias
• Titles of Long Poems
• Titles of Radio Programs
• Titles of Comic Strips
• Titles of Software
• Titles of Art
• Titles of Ships (space, water, etc.)

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When Do I use Quotation Marks?

• newspaper article titles
• magazine article titles
• poem titles
• short story titles
• song titles
• episodes of radio shows
• episodes of television shows
• subdivisions of books

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To help you remember whether to use quotes or
underline a title, ask yourself, Would I carry
this text under my arm, or put it in a file
folder?
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Under the Arm Underline/or Italicize it ? NOT
BOTH!

• You could carry a book, a newspaper, a magazine,
  or one volume to a set of encyclopedias under
  your arm. The titles of a book, newspaper,
  magazine, or encyclopedia are underlined. When
  you think of a play, the script of a movie, and
  the script of a television program typed and
  bound, it would be big enough to carry under your
  arm.

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In a File Folder Use Quotations

• Think of a file folder when you want to remember
  what gets quotation marks. If you could carry the
  item in a file folder, the title of the item will
  need quotation marks when you write it out. A
  poem, the lyrics to a song, and an article from
  the daily paper could all fit into your file
  folder, so the titles of these items all need
  quotation marks.

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Practice Under the Arm or in a File Folder?

• The Tennessean
• Sponge Bob Square Pants
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Titanic
• Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
• The River
• Mona Lisa
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• The Gun
• Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
• The Noble Experiment
• SCMS Band Students Travel to Chattanooga