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COMMAS
HOUSENICK'S 4 COMMA RULES
SEMICOLONS
COLONS
HYPHENS and DASHES
ELLIPSES
QUOTATION
MARKS
QUOTATION MARKS vs. UNDERLINING
ITALICS
BRACKETS
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POS
ERRORS
MECHANICS
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BARD
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Here’s the
long and short of it:
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Italicize
long items: (*MLA-8 now asks writers to use
italics instead of underlining)
§
titles of
magazines, journals, or newspapers;
books; novels; long (epic) poems; compact
discs/albums; television shows;
movies; works of art; names of
trains, planes,
ships, and spacecraft
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Put
“Quotation Marks” around
short items:
§
article titles in
magazines, journals, or newspapers; book chapters;
short stories; short
poems; songs; television
episodes
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UNDERLINE
(long) |
QUOTATION MARKS
(short) |
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magazines,
journals, or newspapers |
articles
in magazines, journals,
or newspapers |
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books, pamphlets
novels, novellas (published
singly) |
book chapters
short stories |
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long (epic) poems |
short poems |
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compact
discs/albums |
songs |
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television shows/programs |
television
episodes |
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movies,
operas, performances |
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works of art
(painting, sculptures) |
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trains, planes,
ships, and spacecraft |
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court cases |
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 *When
you have a title embedded within another title follow the
examples below:
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an italicized title
within a title in quotation marks: |
"The Titanic
Sails Again: Projects Revise Interest"
[an article about a ship]
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an italicized title
within another italicized title: |
Collected Essays on
Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear: The Great Tragedies.
[a book about two plays] |
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a title set in quotes
within another title set in quotes: |
"The Significance of
‘Young Goodman Brown.’"
[an article about a short story] |
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a title set in quotes
within a title that is underlined: |
Late-Twentieth-Century Interpretations of "The Tell-Tale Heart."
[a
book about a short story] |
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VIDEO GAMES:
treat video games like books or
movies and
italicize
these titles
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Halo,
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
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