Thread:AuburnAutumn/@comment-16811522-20130911204718/@comment-16811522-20130912115539

AuburnAutumn wrote: That just looks idiotic. Are the comma or the period part of the title? No, they're not. It just looks ugly and it makes the title look like a dialog piece.

"An Uncommon Romance," she said.

That's what it looks like, a piece of dialog. It doesn't make them a part of the title, and even schoolteachers do it. Unless you think you're smarter than a schoolteacher, who does it as well, you'd be humble and learn. If I just italicize the title, which then wouldn't need quotation marks, would you be happy? Or do I need JeremyCreek to get into this discussion? Because I'm planning on using the book Grammar for Dummies, written by a schoolteacher, to show you that the punctuation rule also applies on quoted titles. Didn't you read the word "always" in this Rule 1 from the website I got it: "Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes"?