Titles that are italicized

Titles of books

The Color Purple, Middlesex, Encarta

Magazines

Time, Scientific American, Salon.com

Newspapers

the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times on the Web

Pamphlets

Common Sense, Facts about Marijuana

Long poems

The Waste Land, Paradise Lost

Plays

King Lear, Rent

Films

Casablanca, American Beauty

Television programs

Survivor, 60 Minutes

Radio programs

All Things Considered

Musical compositions

Porgy and Bess

Choreographic works

Brief Fling

Works of visual art

Rodin’s The Thinker

Comic strips

Dilbert

Electronic databases

InfoTrac

Web sites

ZDNet, Google

Electronic games

Free Cell, Zuma

Titles that are not italicized

Exercises:

Italics 1

Italics 2