Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks Exercise
Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Italics
This entry provides the rules and examples for when and how to use italics and quotation marks in titles, quotations, and more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Italics, Underlines, and Quotes
Learn how to use italics, underlines, and quotes when writing titles of books, movies, songs, etc.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks in Titles
Rules and examples for using quotation marks correctly when writing titles of short works.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Quotation Marks Advanced Exercise
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Quotation Marks.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Italics & Underlining
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Italics and Quotations With Titles Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Italics and Quotations with Titles.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Italics and Quotations With Titles Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Italics and Quotations with Titles.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Italics and Quotations With Special Words Exercise
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Italics and Quotations with Special Words.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Italics and Underlining: Foreign Words
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing foreign words in a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
PBS
Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Titles
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics in titles.
Other
Carson Newman Univ.: Punctuating Titles: Italics, Underlining, Quotation Marks
Learn the rules for punctuating and capitalizing different types of titles in this PowerPoint.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Is This Correctly Punctuated? (Quotation Marks/titles)
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of punctuating quotation marks in titles. Immediate feedback is given.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This site offers a list of links to punctuation exercises/quizzes including commas, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and italics.
Vancouver Island University
Malaspina: Punctuating Quotations Exercise
Passage B - Rewrite this passage in order to improve the grammar, punctuation, parallelism, and format for titles. Passage C - Rewrite this passage in order to improve the style and correct quotation mark errors.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Words, Letters, Numbers Gram. Rules
An explanation and examples underlining/italicizing words, letters, and numbers when they refer to themselves.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Formatting Titles: Rules for Formatting Titles [Pdf]
A worksheet in which students decide which formatting rules apply to each sentence containing a title.
Other
Sta: Punctuation and Capitalization Rules
Use this handy guide for a quick reference to punctuation and capitalization rules. Includes rules for end marks, apostrophes, capitalization, commas, quotation marks, and many more!