A graduate certificate is more focused, more practical and more economical than a master's degree, says Cathy Sandeen, dean of UCLA Extension. Sandeen says graduate certificates are pursued for three reasons: 1  To enhance skills to further a career or to find another job. 2  To get new skills to change careers.
Databases often capitalize the entire title of an article or book, while other types of styles (like the AP style or the APA style) only capitalize the first word. You must change the capitalization of the title to MLA style if you reference the title of a work in your paper. Marking the Title : There are three possible ways to mark a title: the use of underlining/italics, quotation marks, or no mark at all. The following general rules of thumb may help writers conceptualize the difference between the three demarcations: 1  Underline or italicize large works or works that contain other works.
Generally, we italicize the titles of things that can stand by themselves. Thus we differentiate between the titles of novels and journals, say, and the titles of poems, short stories, articles, and episodes (for television shows).The titles of these shorter pieces would be surrounded with double quotation marks.The APA Publication Manual continues to insist on underlining.) In this section, we will use italics only, but they should be considered interchangeable with underlined text. These rules and suggestions do not apply to newspaper writing, which has its own set of regulations in this matter.