📜 Title Up Like a Pro! 📜
Learn these tricks to make your titles pop!
- Double Space for Drama:
Leave a blank line between your title and the start of your text. It’s like giving your title its own spotlight! ✨ - First, Last, and the Big Shots:
Capitalize the first word, the last word, and all the important words in between. Important words include nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and even subordinating conjunctions (like “although” or “because”).
📝 The Great Gatsby Goes Big - Skip the Little Stuff (Unless It’s First):
Articles (a, an, the), prepositions (to, on, by), and coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but) stay lowercase—unless they’re the first word of your title.
📝 A Tale of Two Cities, The Road Not Taken - Italics vs. Quotation Marks: Know the Difference!
- Big works, like books, movies, and magazines, get the fancy italics.
- Small works, like articles, poems, and song titles, get quotation marks.
📝 Examples: To Kill a Mockingbird (book), “The Road Not Taken” (poem)
- Say It Once, Say It Full:
When you mention a title in your writing, give the whole thing the first time. After that, feel free to shorten it.
📝 Example: The Lord of the Rings (first mention); LOTR (next mentions) - Mix It Up in Your Own Titles:
If you refer to another work in your own title, remember to use quotation marks or italics, just like usual.
📝 “The Great Gatsby” in Modern Times
According to Purdue OWL
Remember: Titles are like the headlines for your writing—give them style, make them shine, and they’ll make your work look amazing! ✨