1. Get the title right!

2. Underline/Italicize titles of
Books
Long poems
Periodical titles (newspapers, magazines, journals)
Plays
Movies
TV series
All visual art (painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, etc.)
Ships

3. Make sure you… Underline the letters and spaces
The Great Gatsby CORRECT
The Great Gatsby INCORRECT

4. Underline or Italicize?
When handwriting  underline When typing  italicize

5. Put in quotation marks Chapter titles Essays Short Poems Short stories
Articles in a periodical
Songs
TV episodes
Titles of a webpage

6. Exceptions
Foundational religious texts are neither italicized, underlined or put in quotation marks. This includes:
the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the Book of Mormon, the Vedas

7. Putting it all together
This weekend I watched the “Cleaning Up” episode of The Wire. Hamlet is my favorite Shakespearean play and I also love his “Sonnet 18”. Did you read “Allies Intensify Barrage in Libya” in The New York Times yesterday? I listened to “Ring of Fire” in my car this morning. We read Everybody Poops, The Iliad, the Bible and “The Story of an Hour”.

8. And while we’re at it... # RULES
Write out all numbers less than 11.
Never begin a sentence with a number that is not spelled out
This includes a year, a percentage, ANY NUMBER