Computing Science

10. Formatting - italics

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Italics within your text should be used sparingly, and only in the following instances:

Italics can also be used for emphasis, although many markers don't like this, so if you do use italics for emphasis, make sure you can defend your decision.

Finally, you can also use italics when writing a sentence like the following example:

Their, there and they’re are examples of homophones: they sound the same, but have different meanings.

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