Italics, Quotation Marks or Capitals?
A very useful blog post about some of the lesser know punctuation rules.
Italics, “Quotation Marks” or CAPITALS? Have you wiped the sweat off your brow yet?
It’s a minefield – truly. As with most things in writing, one of the most important rules is to be consistent. Often there isn’t only one way – as a future post on ellipses and suspension points (to laymen – the 3 dots) will show.
But for today, we’re talking about italics. And the reason I’ve lumped quotation marks and capitals into the name of this post is because if you aren’t meant to use italics, apart from when you are using them for emphasis, you could well be using capitals or quotation marks.
Fact! Most people tend to overuse all three.
But when should you use italics? Did you like what I did there?
Well, I’ve already mentioned their usage for emphasis, although your prose (company plug!) should mainly be able to carry that…
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