BY YONGMIN AND JASON

How to Punctuate Titles

Question1

Which title should be Italicized?

a) The Yellow Wallpaper b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner c) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black Pearl d) Obama Administration Pulls through with

Health Care Plan

Question1

Which title should be Italicized?

a) The Yellow Wallpaper b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner c) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Black

Pearl d) Obama Administration Pulls through with

Health Care Plan

Question 2

Which title should be in Quotations?

a)Guns, Germs, and Steelb)Wanderers of the Valleyc)Spiderman 3d)Mona Lisa

Question 2

Which title should be in Quotations?

a)Guns, Germs, and Steelb)Wanderers of the Valleyc)Spiderman 3d)Mona Lisa

Question 3

Pick the title with capitalization problems

a) Heart of Darkness b) The Things They carriedc) Spongebob Squarepants d) ‘Why is North Korea shutting out the

South?’

Question 3

Pick the title with capitalization problems

a) Heart of Darkness b) The Things They carriedc) Spongebob Squarepants d) ‘Why is North Korea shutting out the

South?’

Italicize Big Titles!

The Heart of Darkness (novel)Frankenstein (novel/film)The Sweet Escape (Gwen Stefani’s album)

Italicize Big Titles!

• A novel• A ship• A play• A film• A painting• A sculpture or statue• A drawing• A CD• A TV Series• A cartoon series• An encyclopedia• A magazine• A newspaper• A pamphlet

Punctuation marks for ‘Little Things’

“Yellow Wallpaper”“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens“The Red Wheel barrow”

Punctuation marks for ‘Little Things’

• Poem• Short story• A skit• A commercial• An individual episode in a TV series (like "The

Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld)• A cartoon episode, like "Trouble With Dogs"• A chapter• An article• A newspaper story

What About Capitalization?

Rules

Always capitalize the first and last wordCapitalize all nouns, pronouns, adjectives,

verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions

Lowercase all articles, coordinate conjunctions ("and", "or", "nor"), and prepositions regardless of length, when they are other than the first or last word

Lowercase the "to" in an infinitive

Confusing Examples

My Travels up Nova Scotia's South Shore

(correct; "up" is functioning as a preposition and should be lowercased)

Bringing in the Sheaves

(wrong; "in" is functioning as an adverb and should be capitalized)