Underlining and Italicizing

 

Italics give words a special designation.  Anything that should be underlined in writing may be italicized when using a word processing program.  Underlining and italicizing are the same thing, but you never do both.  So what do we italicize?

·         Titles of books, magazines, newspapers, movies, paintings, ships, television  shows (series, not individual episodes), ships, aircraft, court cases

·         Foreign words and phrases

·         Letters used as words

·         Words that we want to emphasize

 

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