6.5 Workbook #2 p 432, 439
Titles
• In your writing, underline the titles of books, magazines, and newspapers. When these titles appear in printed material, they are set in italic type.
Handwritten New York Times, Time, Stuart Little
Printed New York Times, Time, Stuart Little
• Put quotation marks around the titles of stories, poems, magazine articles, and songs.
We sang “America,” and Ms. Collins recited “If.”
• Capitalize the first word, the last word, and other important words in titles. Capitalize all forms of the verb be.
• Do not capitalize the following short words unless they begin or end a title:
the articles a, an, and the;
the conjunctions and, but, and or;
prepositions with fewer than five letters, such as to, for, in, of, on, at, or with.
“I Was with Washington at Valley Forge”
Toronto Globe and Mail
Handwritten New York Times, Time, Stuart Little
Printed New York Times, Time, Stuart Little
• Put quotation marks around the titles of stories, poems, magazine articles, and songs.
We sang “America,” and Ms. Collins recited “If.”
• Capitalize the first word, the last word, and other important words in titles. Capitalize all forms of the verb be.
• Do not capitalize the following short words unless they begin or end a title:
the articles a, an, and the;
the conjunctions and, but, and or;
prepositions with fewer than five letters, such as to, for, in, of, on, at, or with.
“I Was with Washington at Valley Forge”
Toronto Globe and Mail