Transcript Quotation Marks with Titles and Words #94

QUOTATION MARKS
WITH
TITLES AND WORDS
From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons Series
Mini-Lesson #94
 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.
 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.”