Guest  +  892 Mon, 16 Jun 03 11:47 PM Do I underline titles of movies in a compare and contrast paper? Guest Grammar, Underline

	hitchhiker  +  945 Wed, 18 Jun 03 02:26 AM Any clues on this one teachers? hitchhiker Joined on Mon, Nov 18 2002 Richmond, UK Senior Member 4,036 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement...

	Pia  +  962 Wed, 18 Jun 03 09:40 AM I may be wrong but i don't think that there's a 'rule' as such on this one. I know that there are guidelines to follow when writing a 'thesis' but these may not be the same for each institution. For the sake of layout i would probably bold the titles or italic or put them between single quotes 'like this'. Underlining usually means that you wish to stress something (or you've created a hyperlink). Hope this makes sense. Pia Joined on Mon, Mar 24 2003 Malta Full Member 103 Underline

	Danielle5  +  19579 Sun, 18 Jan 04 01:38 AM Do you know if you underline the name of tests referenced in a personal essay such as the Clep exam or the MCAT?..Gracias Danielle5 Joined on Sun, Jan 18 2004 New Member 01 Essays, Underline

	pedant  +  19658 Mon, 19 Jan 04 04:24 AM The rule we were taught is that titles of movies, books, paintings, and other bodies of artwork are all underlined when typed and italicized when published. (Of course, this was when italicization was something only a profession printer could manage.) Subheadings within such works are put in quotes. These would include chapters titles, article titles in a magazine, episode titles in a TV series, etc. pedant Joined on Thu, Dec 18 2003 Full Member 104 Articles, Underline

	suzi  +  19670 Mon, 19 Jan 04 08:25 AM I encourage my students to underline book titles, so I guess that extends to films. I dont really care whether they do or not, it is not part of the markscheme! It only really matters if the name of the text is the same as a character in the story, e.g. Billy Elliot or Othello, then the underlining sets the title apart from the character and avoids any ambiguity. Best person to ask is the person marking the paper! suzi Joined on Wed, Jan 7 2004 Full Member 465 Underline