Punctuating Composition Titles

When you are using titles of movies, books, music or works of art, you must punctuate the title with quotation marks. You might be inclined to use italics, and in some applications, that would be acceptable. However, for web writing, you need to use quotation marks.

Some basic guidelines (borrowed from the AP Stylebook):

• Capitalize the principle words, including prepositions and conjunctions of four or more letters
• Capitalize an article (four letters or fewer) if it is the first or last word in a title
• Put quotation marks around the names of all works except the Bible and catalogs of reference materials (or dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.)

Examples:

• This is a review of the Disney Pixar film "Ratatouille."
• We read "The Grapes of Wrath" in high school.

Your submissions will be rejected if you do not properly punctuate composition titles.

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