When I put the name of a Novel in a typed paper, should it be ___, "_", or italisized?
2007-01-21 11:53:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Book titles should be underlined.
2007-01-21 12:01:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing is to italicize it. In the days before personal computers, when most people used typewriters, there was no way to italicize; therefore, people used underlining instead.
Quotation marks (" ") should generally be used for shorter works, such as poems and short stories.
Good question, by the way. A lot of people just don't worry about such things, but it can really help your reader to know what kind of work you are referring to.
2007-01-21 12:03:15 · answer #2 · answered by obro 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Underline the titles of books; put quotations from books in quotation marks.
2007-01-21 12:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by JP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned that big things, such as novels, should be underlined, and little things like poems, should be in quotation marks.
2007-01-21 12:03:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The title of a book should always be underlined.
2007-01-22 14:50:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be either underlined or italicized, but not both.
My personal preference is italics.
2007-01-21 12:01:37 · answer #6 · answered by tfedge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋