Writing Tips for papers and reading responses

What do you put in "quotation marks"?        
  • Article from magazine, newspaper, journal - "Shoot Out at the City Dionysus"
  • Essay - "The Naytasastra in Contemporary British Performance"
  • Short Story - "Geertz Goes Wild" (short story by John Emigh)
  • Poem - "To a Grecian Urn" (poem by John Keats)
  • Book Chapter - "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" in Interpretation of Cultures
  • Specific pages within a website - "Crohn's Disease" (page found within the CDC's website)
  • Specific episodes of TV show - "The Trouble with Tribbles" (an episode of Star Trek)
  • Specific episodes of radio program -  "Is It Back?: A Conversation About Feudalism" (a specific epside of the radio program All Things Considered
  • Song - "Strike the Pose" (song by Madonna)
What do you italicize?
  • Book - How Societies Remember, by Stephen Connerton
  • Newspaper - The Providence Journal
  • Magazine - Backstage
  • Journal - TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies
  • Website - Performancetheory.blogspot.com
  • Online database - Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
  • Play - Death and the King's Horsemen by Wole Soyinka
  • Pamphlet - What You Should Know About the Black Plague (Center for Disease Control)
  • Films/movie title - Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  • Television show - The Triumph of Henry Horus 
  • Radio programs/broadcast - This Paleolithic Life
  • Album title - The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Opera - The Magic Flute, an opera
  • Dance Performance - L'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun), a ballet
  • Long Musical Composition (not a song) - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (by Debussy)
  • Painting -  The Teatro Regio in Turin, oil on canvas
  • Sculpture - Loacoon
  • Ships, Aircraft, Spacecraft  - USS Enterprise 
  • The Teatro Regio in Turin, oil on canvas

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