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How to Punctuate Titles. BY YONGMIN AND JASON. Question1. Which title should be Italicized? a) The Yellow Wallpaper b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner c) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black Pearl d) Obama Administration Pulls through with Health Care Plan. Question1. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BY YONGMIN AND JASON
How to Punctuate Titles
Question1
Which title should be Italicized?
a) The Yellow Wallpaper b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner c) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black Pearl d) Obama Administration Pulls through with
Health Care Plan
Question1
Which title should be Italicized?
a) The Yellow Wallpaper b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner c) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black
Pearl d) Obama Administration Pulls through with
Health Care Plan
Question 2
Which title should be in Quotations?
a)Guns, Germs, and Steelb)Wanderers of the Valleyc)Spiderman 3d)Mona Lisa
Question 2
Which title should be in Quotations?
a)Guns, Germs, and Steelb)Wanderers of the Valleyc)Spiderman 3d)Mona Lisa
Question 3
Pick the title with capitalization problems
a) Heart of Darkness b) The Things They carriedc) Spongebob Squarepants d) ‘Why is North Korea shutting out the
South?’
Question 3
Pick the title with capitalization problems
a) Heart of Darkness b) The Things They carriedc) Spongebob Squarepants d) ‘Why is North Korea shutting out the
South?’
Italicize Big Titles!
The Heart of Darkness (novel)Frankenstein (novel/film)The Sweet Escape (Gwen Stefani’s album)
Italicize Big Titles!
• A novel• A ship• A play• A film• A painting• A sculpture or statue• A drawing• A CD• A TV Series• A cartoon series• An encyclopedia• A magazine• A newspaper• A pamphlet
Punctuation marks for ‘Little Things’
“Yellow Wallpaper”“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens“The Red Wheel barrow”
Punctuation marks for ‘Little Things’
• Poem• Short story• A skit• A commercial• An individual episode in a TV series (like "The
Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld)• A cartoon episode, like "Trouble With Dogs"• A chapter• An article• A newspaper story
What About Capitalization?
Rules
Always capitalize the first and last wordCapitalize all nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions
Lowercase all articles, coordinate conjunctions ("and", "or", "nor"), and prepositions regardless of length, when they are other than the first or last word
Lowercase the "to" in an infinitive
Confusing Examples
My Travels up Nova Scotia's South Shore
(correct; "up" is functioning as a preposition and should be lowercased)
Bringing in the Sheaves
(wrong; "in" is functioning as an adverb and should be capitalized)