What is the purpose of using Italics?

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Italics are also used for emphasis and to indicate a heavier-than-normal stress on a word,

Answer 1

To emphasizes the phrase or words and to make them stand out from the rest of the paper or paragraph

Answer 2

Unless recalling dialogue, italics come across as scruffy in a professional manuscript. Although many publishing houses do not make it "public", their are certain rules that a manuscript must follow in order to give it a better chance of being published, of course it has to be well written, but by cutting away any confusion, it makes it much easier for those on the reading board of a publishing house to read through a manuscript and decide whether they wish to accept it or not. If you use the "Underline" option in a professional manuscript for a novel, the typesetter will then change this to italics when it comes to being printed. Also when emphasising speech, ending with an exclamation mark, simply use one ! and not multiple !!!!! for example.

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Answer 4

American printed matter uses italics (the type fonts whose letters slant to the right) for the titles of literary and other artistic works (War and Peace, Verdi’s Requiem); for the names of journals and newspapers (The New York Times, Newsweek); for words, letters, and numbers cited as words, letters, and numbers (as here with the word italics); for foreign words and phrases (ars longa, vita brevis est), although when these loan words and phrases have been fully assimilated into English, we usually cease to italicize them, as with à la mode; for the names of ships (Queen Elizabeth II, or Q.E. II); and for a number of other technical purposes such as are usually specified in a publisher’s stylebook. In handwriting or typescript, underline what you wish to italicize. Italics are also used for emphasis and to indicate a heavier-than-normal stress on a word, particularly in Semiformal and Informal writing, although most editors discourage the practice. To achieve the effect of italics in the midst of a full sentence already in italics, put the word to be stressed in roman: We thought she’d never leave!

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Answer 5

* Emphasis: "Smith wasn't the only guilty party, it's true."

* titles of works that stand by themselves, such as books or newspapers: "There was a performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy." Works that appear within larger works, such as short stories, poems, or newspaper articles, are not italicized, but merely set off in quotation marks.

*The names of ships:

*Foreign words, including the Latin binary nomenclature in the taxonomy of living organisms:

*Using a word as an example of a word rather than for its semantic content (see use-mention distinction):

*Using a letter or number mentioned as itself:

*Introducing or defining terms, especially technical terms or those used in an unusual or different way:[

*Sometimes in novels to indicate a character's thought process

*Symbols for physical quantities and other mathematical variables:

Answer 6

quotes, what a person is thinking if the book is first person, or titles