This document discusses the topic of mechanics in writing for a research methodology paper. It covers the proper formatting for titles of works cited in the text, including italicizing book titles and enclosing article and chapter titles in quotation marks. It also addresses capitalization, punctuation, and spelling conventions that must be followed to ensure writing is precise and grammatically correct. The document provides examples and exceptions to the typical formatting rules for titles.

1. NAME – NIYATI VYAS
SEM – 4
PAPER NAME – RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
TOPIC –MECHANICS IN WRITING IN
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN CONTEXT TO
TITLES IN THE TEXT
SUBMITTED TO – DILIPSIR BARAD
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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Table of contents
MECHANIC
S OF
WRITING
FACTORS IN
MECHANICS
OF WRITING
FACTORS IN
DETAIL
CITATION

3. Mechanics of writing
● The goal of the mechanics of the writing is to make the writing
precise and grammatically correct.
● It is directed to make the writing systematic and being
concerned about how to be correct in spelling, punctuation,
italics and so on.
● The mechanics of writing are the rules that must be followed
by preparing research paper so that the research strategies
and the format becomes systematic and consistent in all
academic sectors.

4. • Title of the publication works in the research paper should be
cited form the title page not form the cover page.
• For capitalizing titles, one should capitalize the first words, the
last words, the words and the principal words, the last words
and the principal words in both titles and subtitles.
• Generally title of the works must be underlined or italicized.
• Title of the names of books, pamphlets, periodicals, films, radio
and television programs etcetera should be underlined if hand
written or italicized if printed in the research paper.
• Titles of the names of articles, essays, short stories, short
poems, chapters of book and so on should be put with in
quotation marks.
• The same is for the case of unpublished work, such as lectures
and speeches.

5. SPELLING
ITALICS
NAMES OF
PERSONS
Factors in mechanics of writing
PUNCTUATION
TITLES OF
WORKS IN THE
RESEARCH
PAPER
QUOTATIONS
CAPITALIZATION AND
PERSONAL NAMES

6. CAPITALIZATION
AND PUNCTUATION
• Always take the title from
the title page not the cover
page
• Spacial typography
characteristics
• Capitalize the first word
and last word and all
principal words.

7. Titles of published books, plays (of any length),
long poems (usually poems that have been
published as books), pamphlets, periodicals
(including newspapers and magazines), works
of classical literature (but not sacred writings),
films, radio and television programs, ballets,
operas, instrumental music (but not if identified
simply by form, number and key), paintings,
sculpture, and names of ships and aircraft are
all [italicized] in the text. …
ITALISIZED TITLE

8. EXAMPLES
● As You Like It (play)
● The Waste Land (long
poem)
● Time (magazine)

9. TITLES IN QUOTATION MARKS
Titles of articles, essays, short stories, short poems, songs, chapters of books,
unpublished works (such as dissertations), lectures and speeches, courses, and
individual episodes of radio and television programs are enclosed in quotation
marks.

10. “Young
Goodman
Brown” (short
story)
EXAMPLES
“Sources of
Energy in the
Twenty-First
Century” (articl
e in a
magazine)
“Introductory
Mathematics” (
course)

11. • “Young Goodman
Brown” and
Hawthorne’s Puritan
Heritage (book)
• “As You Like It as a
Pastoral
Poem” (article)
EXAMPLES

12. EXCEPTION
These conventions of [italicizing] titles or
placing them within quotation marks do not
apply to sacred writings (including all books
and versions of the Bible), to series,
editions, and societies, to descriptive words
or phrases (or conventional titles) used
instead of an actual title, and to parts of a
book, none of which is underlined or put
within quotation marks.

13. Bible Genesis Upnishad
EXAMPLES

14. SHORTENED TITLE
If a title is to be mentioned often in
the text, after the first full reference
in the text or in a note, use only a
shortened (if possible, familiar or
obvious) title or abbreviation.

15. EXAMPLE
“Nightingale” for “Ode to a
Nightingale”
SBI for State bank of india

16. CITATION
"Importance Of Mechanics In Writing."
PaperAp.com, 5 Dec 2019,
https://paperap.com/paper-on-mechanics-
of-writing/
Arvind, Nair. (26 February 2013).
“Mechanics of writing- mla”.
Armstrong, Kair. (2022). “Mechanics of
writing”.

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