Quotation or Underline (1 Viewer)

[hipsta_jess]

ok, i asked my teacher today (Snr HSC marker, HT English) and she said it doesnt matter, as long as whatever it is you do, you do it for the entire essay and dont switch half-way through or anything

 

[anti]

Officially it's as people have said - underlining for titles of books, collections, and quotes (I think it's really double quotes) for poetry, song titles, anything that's part of a bigger compilation.

Doing both is considered poor style.

I don't think examiners will care as long as you don't make a mess of it.

 

[Jarm]

im satisfied with these last two explainations. Thankyou all

 

[~TeLEpAtHeTiC~]

Originally posted by SmokedSalmon
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.

Originally posted by 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."

i concur

thats what i do and thats what i have been told to do
havn't had a problem before and dont plan to have any problems in the hsc

 

[ndn]

I was just gonna say what hipsta_jess and anti said:

If you are responding to the change question, and for some texts you are using quotations and with others you are using underline, won't that look kind of pathetic in your essay?!

I think I'll just underline texts and use quotations for quotes

 

[anti]

Originally posted by ndn
I was just gonna say what hipsta_jess and anti said:

If you are responding to the change question, and for some texts you are using quotations and with others you are using underline, won't that look kind of pathetic in your essay?!

I think I'll just underline texts and use quotations for quotes

I don't quite understand what you mean by 'pathetic'?
It looks fine. If you can't write in italics the next best thing is an underline. I think you'll find that poetry etc is always referred to using quotes.

But eh, I'm pedantic.

 

[ollyrs]

hey

 

[Rawf]

Erm. What we learnt at school is that you underline novels, movies, articles or whatever. I just do it free hand, i dont really care.. sometimes it looks like i crossed out the title but whatever LOL
And for POEMS you use these things ' ' i dont know if they're called quotation marks though.
EG: yeats poem 'The Wild Swans at Coole', and the novel Frankenstein