i'm writing essays on books and the title for the essay is the books title, for example jane eyre... do i underline that or make it italic?
2006-08-19 12:46:29 · 19 answers · asked by ilessthanthreeyou 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
or put quotation marks around it?
2006-08-19 12:50:50 · update #1
The title of a book is always underlined or in Bold print. Short story titles and essay titles of published writers are in quotation marks. Never use both underlining and quotation marks-that is automatically wrong. You would underline Jane Eyre.
2006-08-19 13:03:32 · answer #1 · answered by violetb 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Holy cow, I have never seen so many bad answers. Quotation marks are wrong -- they are used for short stories within a book, or articles within a periodical.
The old school method is underlining. If you want to play it safe, go with that. The modern method is italics. It is commonly accepted, and just looks crisper, but some ancient professors will dock you for it.
2006-08-19 16:03:21 · answer #2 · answered by Unknown User 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Generally a underline is used for a book, cd(I almost wrote album, what a fossil),movie, magazine or play. Quotations are used for parts of the whole a magazine article, poem, song, and such. Italics are usually used to signal something is different, a character thinking to themselves or a foreign language for example. Hope this helps.
2006-08-19 13:22:05 · answer #3 · answered by cyn1066 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi.
The whole book's name /title gets underlined; its chapters' names/titles get quotation marks.
The whole newspaper's name gets underlined; its articles' names/titles get quotation marks.
So, you capitalize the "J" in Jane and the "E" in Eyre and underline that title. Back in the day, each word in a title was separately underlined. It hasn't changed; we just rarely do it....
2006-08-19 13:03:48 · answer #4 · answered by karaokecatlady 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Underline
2006-08-19 12:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by ewema 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a title, no matter what it is, just capitalize as appropriate. i.e. the title of your essay will be
Jane Eyre
and that is all. No italics, no underlining for your title. In your Bibliography that is where you will do the underlining of the title for the book that was your reference.
2006-08-19 17:16:30 · answer #6 · answered by Goldenrain 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No italic, we only use italics when we are quoting an act e.g The Sentencing Act 1991 or for another example: The Privacy Act 2001.
As for book titles being in italics, I don't believe that this is a requirement, however it's optional for you.
2006-08-19 13:02:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can either underscore or italicise Jane Eyre, typographically they mean the same thing. But I would add something to your title, "An Essay on" or "A Review of" or some such. "Jane Eyre" is the name of a book, not your essay or, to put it another way, you're not writing Jane Eyre, you're writing about it.
2006-08-19 13:05:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
whilst you're doing a manuscript for a writer, use underline. whether it extremely is for private use, it would not rely, different than that whilst you're utilising a sans serif font, it extremely is much less complicated to work out underline than italics.
2016-12-17 13:48:58 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You always underline a book title.
2006-08-19 12:53:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋