By Quotation marks, Essays

Hi, I'm writing an essay where I have to talk about book titles, movie titles, and TV show titles, sometimes in the same sentance. What do I do? Undeline, Italics, or Quotation marks? thanks!

I ain't worried bout a damn thang, with unconditional love. All these are very informal, very probably not appropriate for such an essay, if used directly. Thus, use quotation marks: He said, nonchalantly, "I ain't worried bout a damn thang, with unconditional love." if you insist on...

Nona The Brit wrote: They are quite long with complex structures, so they are only suitable for a formal context. Thank you, Nona. These are two paragraphs for a PG essay I'm writing, so I think a formal register is appropriate. Mister Micawber wrote:3-- the South Korean GDPno comma after...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems':Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...

Not sure about that Anon... Think of a whole excerpt from a book with several sentences that you want to quote in your essay... Then you probably wouldn't want to turn the end-of-sentence periods into commas : I think it would definitely have no sense doing that... Or am I mistaken as to what you...

I think the quotation marks in the original may have been there just to isolate the statement at issue. If the dialogue represents a conversation, I like the one-word-sentence option. "Can you do X?" "Definitely." "Can you do Y?" "Probably not." If it's an abstract or rhetorical dialogue...

I saw this article from the web and I think it is worth to post part of the article in this forum. Following is the article ...AND REPORTED SPEECH Dear English Doctor, Please explain about word changes in reported speech. If you say to me "My sister is going to Chiang Mai", I can report...

This is supposed to be a letter to specific group of people Basic objective of this essay is to "present my position with regard to your topic and try to convince the audience of that position." Please advise me how to finish this up (everything in quotation marks are for my privacy..:)...

There are different conventions, but I've always used the MLA Handbook for writing papers. This is what it says: "Use quotation marks for the titles of works published within larger works. Such titles include the names of articles, essays, short stories, short poems, chapters of books, and...

When you know your family will add a new member, you are sure of one thing: you are determined to do everything in your power to give your new family member the best possible start in life. You really have written two good statement here. Congratulations. I like what you have written.