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Title: English assisstance please
Post by: LimeTwister on September 25, 2003, 04:23:25 pm

when writing a books title which of the following is used:

"Five Books of Moses"

"Five Books of Moses"

Five Books of Moses

Five Books of Moses

Five Books of Moses

I get lost...and it sucks my world history teacher is also my english teacher, so he counts off for grammar situations.

Title: Re: English assisstance please
Post by: Vultch on September 25, 2003, 04:26:03 pm

I believe it's:
Five Books of Moses

If I'm wrong... oops

Title: Re: English assisstance please
Post by: LimeTwister on September 25, 2003, 04:30:48 pm

Quote from: "blackvulture"

I believe it's:
Five Books of Moses

If I'm wrong... oops

yea i think you're right...

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: eclv on September 25, 2003, 04:56:13 pm

you are correct BV

Title: Re: English assisstance please
Post by: Will on September 25, 2003, 04:59:03 pm

Five Books of Moses is acceptable when you type something up. As a general rule, anything that is underlined can be italicized instead.

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: rosieposy87 on September 26, 2003, 07:06:22 am

Here we would put them in quotation marks 'Five Books of Moses' because that distinguishes it as different- and you did ask for english help after all didn't u!?

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: eclv on September 26, 2003, 07:21:21 am

haha Rosie, I guess he did didn't he  :lol:

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: LimeTwister on September 26, 2003, 11:06:18 am

Quote from: "rosieposy87"

Here we would put them in quotation marks 'Five Books of Moses' because that distinguishes it as different- and you did ask for english help after all didn't u!?

lol that i did....

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: PIBby on September 26, 2003, 11:50:41 am

Kevin's right, it's underlined, however, if you mention the AUTHOR, you've GOT to have the author's name underlined as well. NOT ITALICIZED. IF the title of the book was italicized, the author's name could be as well. It all has to font-in-etic-ally match. ;)

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: badsrx7 on September 26, 2003, 12:41:42 pm

lol I'm pretty sure you don't do anything to the author's name..

You could either underline or italicize the book's name.

Personalllly, I prefer the italics.

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: PIBby on September 26, 2003, 02:11:37 pm

Nope, you do.

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: rroo on September 26, 2003, 03:40:00 pm

I think it's:

Three Books of Occult Philosophy :roll:

(http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/3books.jpg)

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: Will on September 26, 2003, 04:00:36 pm

You never underline or italicize an author's name except for emphasis.

And Rosie, UK and US English are vastly different in written form. I think we had that discussion on AIM awhile back. I still think putting the period outside of the quotation marks makes more sense!

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: tricia on September 26, 2003, 04:35:24 pm

Author's name is done regularly.

OUTSIDE THE QUOTES!  Gosh darn it

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: tylor2000 on September 26, 2003, 11:55:15 pm

I just put:

<book> The Five Books of Moses</book><Author>Moses</Author>

MTV style

tylor

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: sayyouwould on September 27, 2003, 05:52:17 am

I asked for english help the other day but whatever....

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: rosieposy87 on September 27, 2003, 07:42:13 am

I still don't understand why on earth you would underline it. It makes no sense to me at all.

Title: English assisstance please
Post by: Will on September 27, 2003, 08:24:49 am

Quote from: "tylor2000"

I just put:

<book> The Five Books of Moses</book><Author>Moses</Author>

MTV style

tylor

MTV uses XML on air?