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Every noun and verb should be capitalized in your title. Do not enclose your title in quotation marks or italicize it. | Every noun and verb should be capitalized in your title. Do not enclose your title in quotation marks or italicize it. | ||
Title of the following should be either underlined or italicized: | Title of the following should be either underlined or italicized: | ||
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Quotation marks are used around the following titles of short works: | Quotation marks are used around the following titles of short works: | ||
newspaper and magazine articles, short poems, short stories, songs, episodes of television and radion programs, and subdivisions of books and web sites. | newspaper and magazine articles, short poems, short stories, songs, episodes of television and radion programs, and subdivisions of books and web sites. | ||
Titles should also be used to grab the reader's attention as well as asserting the author's opinion. As a person is looking over a blog or article, the title is what will draw the reader to the article otherwise the reader will simple skip to the next passage if the reader is not entice by the title. Descriptive word that give clear, crisp images will help lure readers. | |||
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