Quotation or Underline (1 Viewer)

[redslert]

For your essays do you quote the title of your text or underline...
in the past my teachers have told me to quote the titles using double quotation marks or when typing you bold or italics....

but suddenly there's this shift in the english world where all the teachers want underline titles?!

some don't care but a teacher kinda told me to underline..

i know other languages use underline for titles, eg chinese so it does seem logical

i know one of my friends who does both...best of both worlds

 

[Huy]

I do both.

"Immigrant Chronicle" by Peter Skrzynecki...

We've always been told to underline our texts, but I've always quoted and underlined (it doesn't waste that much time!)

 

[Nupil]

I just underline. I'm boring.

 

[HannieStar]

I lost marks in my tial for using quotations instead of underlining.....I was so angry.

 

[tooheyz]

do both so you cant go wrong.

 

[Blondie]

there IS actually a cocrect way to do it.

--> if the text is part of a bigger text, such as the texts in thw BOS booklet. so itd be "sky high" in the BOS Booklet Changing (underlined)

 

[MiSSi]

you have to underline your texts? i didn't know that.

 

[yeahyeahyeahs]

new concept to me too! like throughout the whole essay or just upon first mention of the text?

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Underlining or Quotes

Well what I have been taught is if its a book or a film then you underline it i.e. Stolen Children: Their Stories
If it is a poem or a song then it is in inverted commas
i.e. "Under the Bridge" by RHCP.
So there you go. But if you are still worried calling up the HSC advice line is a good idea.

 

[Mordenkainen]

Underlining is heaps faster than quotation marks, right?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Mordenkainen
Underlining is heaps faster than quotation marks, right?

Yes, usually.

I do both, so I can't really say, I'm fast enough.

But underlining is faster than quotes
unless you're a single quoter

' instead of "

'mordenkainen'
"modenkainen"

I would have: "Mordenkainen" lol

 

[+:: $i[Q]u3 ::+]

oh oops i voted wrong ehehe...
underline.

 

[Leap]

My teacher always says underline for names of prose fiction, films, plays, tv shoes, e.g Frontline
but use quotations for poems, songs and the actual names of the Frontline episodes, e.g "Smaller fish to fry."

 

[PacifistWarrior]

It's a bit confusing. Although underlining the name of the whole text, but putting quotes on the subheadings in it sound right.

Then again if you don't do any, you probably will only lose a few marks anyway!

 

[Glide]

Teacher only told us recently to underline as well as quote :|
So yeah, just doing both.

 

[Loz#1]

I use quotations. I can't do straight lines and I hate it.

 

[Kiya]

WHO THE HELL UNDERLINES?? we werent EVER told to do that just to make sure we quote them,underlining is a new concept to me

 

[Jarm]

either way im pretty sure it is wrong to do both eg "Looking For Alibrandi"

 

[Huy]

I always do both, never had a problem before.

There's no difference LOL.

As long as you're showing it's a (prescribed or supplementary) text, the medium and preferrably the author/composer, or even the date of authorship and source.

Underline, don't underline.
Quote, don't quote.

Use what you're used to doing

 

[iambored]

Originally posted by Blondie
there IS actually a cocrect way to do it.

--> if the text is part of a bigger text, such as the texts in thw BOS booklet. so itd be "sky high" in the BOS Booklet Changing (underlined)

that;s what i learnt but in the end i just underline all of them because it get's too confusing