How to copy italicised words or phrases by hand
There are some sentences containing italicised words or phrases in books. When I copy them by hand, how should I deal with them? I'd like to know what native speakers usually do. I sometimes put quotation marks to them, and sometimes write in a normal way (in the same way as other words). Is it uncommon?

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Although the convention is to underline, I personally would use quotation marks.

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The standard convention for representing italicised text in handwriting is to underline it.