A few days ago
Anonymous

Does anyone know a lot about English puncuation rules about book titles?

Okay so heres the story:

I just got a project back today where I spent hours compared to my classmate’s 10 minutes on making my “postcard”book project perfect. I made intricate designs and everything. Now when I was explaining about my postcard in the part where I was supposed to say if I like it or not, i accidentally put the book title in “quotations” instead of underlining it.

Now, i understand that I probably made a mistake…but what I thought was ridiculous was that I got marked down from a 100% to an 84% JUST because I marked that one thing with quotations instead of underlining it. My rubic had every category as 5 points, except for that one that got no points, just because of this one punctuational error. A fellow classmate on the other hand made three errors and recieved a 92%. He was one of them that spend 10 minutes.

I approached my teacher about this after class, and she said that it “looks nice” but now ill never make this mistake again… what do you think aboutit

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A few days ago
desperatehw

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I don’t know of any such “loophole” I am sorry to say. I did want to tell you that you have my complete sympathy and understanding. I am almost as upset for you as if you were my own child, because this is just the type of thing that happens to my own, especially my daughter. I don’t understand how teachers think, but I do know that they have an awful LOT of students to teach and grade, and so they keep the items which are grade-able to the bare minimum–things they can basically check off a list as right or wrong. So, that is what bit you in the rear here. In a perfect world, you would have gotten “extra credit” for the extra effort you put in, and if I were your mom, I’d have written your teacher an email about that and probably have embarrassed you.

You sound like a great student, though, so rest assured, in the long run, you will have greater success in life than the 10 minute genius you lost to this time.

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A few days ago
Pistachio
Well I am only 14 so the rules are probably a little more relaxed for us but my punctuation obsessed teacher says we can put book titles in italics, underline them or put them in quotations.
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5 years ago
Anonymous
I think it is “Reisebilder” and not Reilebilder. The old-style German “s” looks a bit like an “l”. This type of script is called Zitterling (or Sitterling). I would translate it as: Travel pictures/photos and sounds from home. Hope this helped, Eva
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