There is no need to place quotation marks around your sentences, and it is time-consuming. These are OK: I am pursuing an MSc in Chemistry. I am pursuing an MSc degree in Chemistry.

You cannot italicize and you cannot underline? Then and only then, go ahead and use the quotation marks. Don't use the colon.

Do not underline titles, that is a printer's tool. A document title, such as in your example, is either italicized or has quotation marks around it. For example, a book title is italicized but a chapter title has quotation marks around it. See

American printing convention places the period and the comma always within the quotation marks and colons and semicolons always outside of them.

The problem you have is that quotation marks are supposed to indicate an exact quote, not a general rehash of what was said or thought. Maybe you could have your character talk to himself, as "Oh Brother," he said too himself, wondering

The sentence is "She was determined to get rid of them if she found any". http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

Hi, Where does one place the period? Is it after the ending quotation marks ("Leaf".) or before the ending quotation marks ("Leaf.") The sentence would be: I read the book "Leaf". OR I read the book

Hi, Where does one place the period? Is it after the ending quotation marks ("Leaf".) or before the ending quotation marks ("Leaf.") Thanks, MVB

Hi, Which sentence is correct? 1-I read the book "Leaf". OR I read the book "Leaf." OR I read the book Leaf . OR I read the book Leaf. Do we underline the book in a sentence or can we put quotation

As a high school English teacher I would use a semi-colon as technically they are all separate sentences except for the "Performance is improving." The other way you could go is to say Mary's teachers said, "She is always