do you underline short story titles or quote them?

Answer 1

you don't quote them or underline them when they're used as titles...
(titles when you're already writing your story)
but when you state titles say in a statement, you put quotation marks or italicize them...

Answer 2

Short story titles are put in quotation marks. Quotation marks are also used for other short works, such as poems and magazine articles. Traditionally underlining was used for complete books. However, in modern times italics are used instead of underlining for that purpose.

Answer 3

When I am writing my papers for classes at the University I attend, I underline and italicize the titles of stories, books, or articles. I put quotes around it one time (on one of my first papers) and was told "this is not elementary school, do not make that mistake again." It was not a Professor, just a grad student teacher's assistant, however, they were much further along than myself. So I stated italicizing and underlining the titles, and have never once had points deducted for doing so.

My philosophy is that you quote actual text (like if you were quoting a line out of the short story) and then cite your source.

For example:
James Joyce, the author of Araby [underlined and italicized], clearly indicates the time of year the story is set in, when he wrote "When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners." (line one, third paragraph of Araby [italicized and underlined] located at http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/araby.html)

End of example. So it is important to set the title apart, yet keep the quotes for actual text, and always remember to cite the source. So my answer is to italicize and underline.

Just my way of doing it...

Answer 4

You quote them.
Titles of short things (like short stories, movies, and pamplets) are quoted, Titles of long things (like a magazine or book) are underlined

Answer 5

Short story titles are always in quotation marks.

Answer 6

quick question! I'm writing a research paper. And I would like to start my paper with a quote. However this quote although is relevant to my paper, I don't intent to explain it write away, it's more like an implied statement. So a traditional MLA paper is as follows, of course double spaced. Names Professor's name Course Date Title indention-- Start paragraph So, I have the impression that if I want start with a quote on top of my paper it would go in the following way: Names Professor's name Course Date Quote Title Indentation----- starts paragraph. Please let me know what I should do! I really like this quote and it will make a good "heading" for the paper. Also, is it supposed to be double spaced? italicized? same font 12? Thank you soooo much in advanced! I've done research on this topic for so long. I started with my MLA booklet but didn't find any answers.

Answer 7

underline

Answer 8

APA says you can do either... underline them or put them into italics

Answer 9

underline

Answer 10

underline