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Syracuse City School District

Capitalization and Punctuation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How many of the pupils in your language arts class can differentiate between a colon and a semicolon? Clarify common conventions, including end punctuation, proper capitalization, and sentence structure, with a series of helpful grammar...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Italics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry provides the rules and examples for when and how to use italics and quotation marks in titles, quotations, and more.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks in Titles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using quotation marks correctly when writing titles of short works.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Italics & Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Italics and Underlining: Foreign Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing foreign words in a sentence.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Titles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics in titles.
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Other

Carson Newman Univ.: Punctuating Titles: Italics, Underlining, Quotation Marks

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn the rules for punctuating and capitalizing different types of titles in this PowerPoint.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Words, Letters, Numbers Gram. Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples underlining/italicizing words, letters, and numbers when they refer to themselves.
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Other

Sta: Punctuation and Capitalization Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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!
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Other

Illinois Valley Community College: Stylebook: Formatting Titles in Mla Style

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Notes and examples for formatting titles using MLA style.
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English Club

English Club: Type

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
EnglishClub provides information about different forms of "type" on this resource. Functions of "bold" and "italics" are discussed.