Using Quotation Marks for Titles and Words in Writing
Learn how to correctly use quotation marks for titles of short works and specific words in writing. This guide covers when to use quotation marks for essays, short stories, poems, songs, and more, with examples and tips for clarity and correctness.
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Writing Lab Quotation Marks with Titles and Words
Quotation Marks with Titles and Words Use quotation marks to set off titles of short works and titles of parts of long works. Use quotation marks for titles of essays, short stories, short poems, songs, chapters or section in books, speeches, episodes of radio or television series, and articles in magazines, newspapers, and professional journals. Other titles are set to italics.
Quotation Marks with Titles and Words Cont. Words used in a special sense are enclosed in quotation marks. It was clear that adults approved of children who were readers, but it was not at all clear why this was so. (Annie Dillard, New York Times Magazine) When a word is referred to as a word, italics, not quotation marks, are used. How do you pronounce trough. When you quote a dictionary definition, put the word you are defining in italics and the definition in quotation marks. To infer means to draw a conclusion ; to imply means to suggest.
Thats all, folks! This lesson is part of the UWF Writing Lab Grammar Mini-Lesson Series Lessons adapted from Real Good Grammar, Too by Mamie Webb Hixon To find out more, visit the Writing Lab s website where you can take a self-scoring quiz corresponding to this lesson
