Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Is This Correctly Punctuated? (Quotation Marks)
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of punctuating quotation marks. Immediate feedback is given.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
This slideshow lesson focuses on divided (split) quotations and how to punctuate them. It presents four uses of the divided quote, explains how to punctuate each, and provides examples.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Punctuating Dialogue
This slideshow focuses on how to punctuate dialogue; it explains the rules for quotation mark and comma use in direct speech, when switching speakers, and when a single speaker speaks in multiple, continuous paragraphs. It provides...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Short Quotation Punctuation
This slideshow tutorial focuses on punctuating short quotations; it defines short quotations, explains how to smoothly integrate quotations into your writing, and gives the rules for punctuating them according to method of integration.
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.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
An eight-slide presentation explaining how to properly punctuate a divided quote.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Punctuating With Quotation Marks
Punctuating direct address can be tricky. This tutorial gives clear examples and explanations of where to place the closing puncution, depending on the meaning of the sentence. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a divided quotation. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks in Titles
Rules and examples for using quotation marks correctly when writing titles of short works.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Quotations and Commas
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to learn the proper way to use quotations and commas. They will view information on the Internet and participate in online activities to help them master this concept.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma Between Direct Quote and Attributive Tag
This page explains the comma placement needed between a direct quote and its speaker dependent upon the location of the attributive tag. It includes examples of various tag locations.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations
This lesson introduces the punctuation rules for including a quotation within a quotation. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow and provides review questions over the lesson's content.
Other
Carson Newman Univ.: Punctuating Titles: Italics, Underlining, Quotation Marks
Learn the rules for punctuating and capitalizing different types of titles in this PowerPoint.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
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.