2013年10月25日 星期五

Italicization

Italicization
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Italicize the following (or underline if writing by hand or using a typewriter):
  • The titles of books, plays, book-length poems, magazines, and newspapers:
 War and Peace TIME magazine
 Twelfth Night National Geographic
 Beowulf Miami Herald
  • The titles of movies and radio and television programs:
 Finding Nemo Law & Order
 Car Talk Masterpiece Theater
  • The titles of works of art, including paintings, sculptures, and major musical compositions:
    Mona Lisa (painting) 
    The Thinker (sculpture) 
    Swan Lake (ballet) 
    Porgy and Bess (opera)
 Do not italicize musical compositions named by number or key: Symphony No. 4; Quartet in E minor.
  • Words, letters, and numbers used as such: 
    How do you spell ache
    Does your name end with a c or a k
    The 6 looked like a 0.
  • Foreign words and phrases that have not been assimilated into English: 
    Alex's Weltanschauung was gloomy. 
    Ed made a tarte au citron for dessert.
  • Words and phrases that are being emphasized: 
    Paris was the place to be in the '20s.
  • The names of the plaintiff and defendant in legal citations: Johnson v. Smith.
  • The names of ships, aircraft, and space vehicles: 
    USS Maine
    The Spirit of St. Louis
    space shuttle Challenger
  • The New Latin names of genera, species, subspecies, and varieties in botanical and zoological nomenclature: Quercus alba; Homo sapiens.
 

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