This week’s topic is italics – a request from one of our regular readers.
You can type in italics by clicking on the slanted I at the top of your word processing page.
Here are three of the many uses for italics.
1- Use italics to type book titles. Look at these sentence examples:
I just finished reading Moby Dick for a school assignment.
My little sister’s favorite book is Where the Wild Things Are.
2- Use italics to type magazine titles. Here are some sentence examples:
My dad gets a monthly subscription to National Geographic.
The artist Norman Rockwell had his artwork published in Life magazine.
3- Use italics to type newspaper titles. Look at these sentence examples:
My mother enjoys her daily issue of the Chicago Tribune.
A lot of business people subscribe to The Wall Street Journal.
We can only use italics when we are typing. If you are writing by hand, you will have to underline the title.
Remember to always use italics when typing the name of a book, a magazine, or a newspaper.
If you are writing by hand, underline the title of the book, magazine, or newspaper.