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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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questions on quotes and italics
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1. From a booklet by Scholastic Library Publishing for educators that advertise their products/material?, they were advertising Scholastic Classroom Magazines and among them was this:
DynaMath Magazine
On the picture of its cover, it had "DynaMath" in bold, yellow letters and beside it, it had this sentence (among several sentences) as part of its promotional and explanationatory writing about the magazine:
Get kids excited about math with DynaMath's puzzles, games, hands-on activities and kid-friendly news features not found in any textbook.
Why did not italicized the title of this magazine? I thought magazine titles are italicized.
2. I am uncomfortable about putting quotation marks around those words capitalized since it might indicate a proper noun or a special use of the word.
Particpants will take a "Cultural sensitivity survey" after which we will discuss the responses.
Why didn't capitalize "sensitivity" and "survey" when they seem to be part of the survey name? Would you put quotation marks around it?
another example:
I will give out a sheet of "Cultural Pitfalls" that I have based on the situations mentioned previously.
3. Can you confirm the validity of this statement? I think the below isn't concerning the situations where a word is used in a special sense. I think for the special use of a word, we put quotation marks around it.
Underlining or italics should be used to emphasize a word or phrase.
1. From a booklet by Scholastic Library Publishing for educators that advertise their products/material?, they were advertising Scholastic Classroom Magazines and among them was this:
DynaMath Magazine
On the picture of its cover, it had "DynaMath" in bold, yellow letters and beside it, it had this sentence (among several sentences) as part of its promotional and explanationatory writing about the magazine:
Get kids excited about math with DynaMath's puzzles, games, hands-on activities and kid-friendly news features not found in any textbook.
Why did not italicized the title of this magazine? I thought magazine titles are italicized.
2. I am uncomfortable about putting quotation marks around those words capitalized since it might indicate a proper noun or a special use of the word.
Particpants will take a "Cultural sensitivity survey" after which we will discuss the responses.
Why didn't capitalize "sensitivity" and "survey" when they seem to be part of the survey name? Would you put quotation marks around it?
another example:
I will give out a sheet of "Cultural Pitfalls" that I have based on the situations mentioned previously.
3. Can you confirm the validity of this statement? I think the below isn't concerning the situations where a word is used in a special sense. I think for the special use of a word, we put quotation marks around it.
Underlining or italics should be used to emphasize a word or phrase.
Top answer
1. DynaMath Magazine. Why did not italicized the title of this magazine?
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- DynaMath Magazine.
- Why did not italicized the title of this magazine?
- -- They should be, formally, as in bibliographies and careful writing; they are often not in other situations.
- So long as it is clearly a title, the method used to represent that is not so important.
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1. DynaMath Magazine. Why did not italicized the title of this magazine? I thought magazine titles are italicized.-- They should be, formally, as in bibliographies and careful writing; they are often not in other situations. So long as it is clearly a title, the method used to represent that is not so important.
2. I would have done this:
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1. DynaMath Magazine. Why did not italicized the title of this magazine? I thought magazine titles are italicized.-- They should be, formally, as in bibliographies and careful writing; they are often not in other situations. So long as it is clearly a title, the method used to represent that is not so important.
2. I would have done this:
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