Heba Jaser

Grade 8 National

The Girl Who

Married The Moon 5
 Helpful Tips:
1)Capitalize all important words in a title
2)Prepositions can be capitalized
3)No title should ever be both italicized
and put in quotes
4)Coordinating conjunctions are usually
not capitalized, unless they are at the
beginning of a sentence
 Style & Punctuation

How to use italics and

quotation marks
 Italicizing VS Underlining
• One should always italicize when
typing/word processing
• When one is handwriting,
underlining takes the place of
italicizing.
• You should only underline when the
rules of style dictate it.
 TITLES OF Books
Italicize titles of
published books

The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn is one of
the most popular destinations
on Sparknotes.Com.
TITLES OF newspapers
and Magazines
Italicize titles of
newspapers and
magazines

The New York Times is my

favorite paper to read..
 TITLES OF Plays
Italicize titles of plays

I saw Hamlet last week at

the Fox Theater..
 TITLES OF Movies
Italicize titles of
Movies or TV shows

This summer my
daughters couldn’t wait
to see Monsters
University.
 TITLES OF TV Shows
Italicize titles of
Movies or TV shows

I caught up with the last

season of Lost by
renting the DVD’s.
TITLES OF artwork
Italicize titles of:

works of art

I had to analyze how color is used in

Starry Night for the midterm.
 TITLES OF WORKS
Italicize titles of
works of art

If you travel to Paris be sure

to see Venus de Milo at the
Louvre Museum.
 TITLES OF articles
Use quotation marks
around titles of articles
in periodicals
(magazines) and
newspapers
Anyone who read
“Dewey Defeats
Truman” got a big
surprise the next
morning.
 TITLES OF short stories
Put in quotation marks
titles short stories

Just for fun, I read “There Will

Come Soft Rains” over the
summer.
Note: Short stories are published with other
stories inside books referred to as
anthologies.
 TITLES OF chapters

Use quotation marks

around titles of parts
and chapters of books
I have to read “Westward
Expansion” for Mr.
Whalen’s history class by
Thursday.
 TITLES OF episodes

Use quotation marks

around titles of
television episodes

My favorite episode of Lost is “There’s

No Place Like Home” which has a great
cliff-hanger.
 TITLES OF Poems
Put in quotation marks
titles for poems

“Cats Don’t Care” is a

poem that rhymes.
TITLES OF songs
Use quotation
marks around titles
of songs

“Someone Like You,” by

Adele is the Top iTunes
Pop Song in many
European countries.
 TITLES OF Essays
Put in quotation
marks titles of
(someone else’s/not
your own essay titles)
essay

Kyle simply called his

impromptu essay
“Football.”
And most importantly
 TITLES OF Myths
Put in quotation
marks titles of
(myths or legends.

We really enjoyed
reading “The Girl
Who Married the