Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).
Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
I thought my best entries in a work cited page were not from my Significant Writing Project, so I chose to use the above citations for the articles from my second paper. I have been able to document my work using appropriate MLA conventions. In high school, my teachers recommended that I used a MLA citation generator website to do my citations. I feel like I never really learned how to do a proper citation. My teachers tried to give us a format on how to do the citation, but I was never sure if it was correct. As I entered college, I found that going over how to do the citations really helped. We have worked on how to cite our sources in class, which has taught me the correct way to cite. I also think The Little Seagull is a very useful resource because it tells us how to cite so many different sources, not just articles. I now feel confident finding the parts of a citation that I didn’t think I could find. Sometimes, the publisher and published date is the hardest part to find for me, but this English 110 class has given me the confidence to find what I need to make a proper citation. Another part of the MLA format that I feel I have improved on are the in text citations. It was never clear to me if we should simply put the author’s last name and a page number or if we should do something else, but this course has helped me find new ways to incorporate my citations into the paper. I felt that I used introducing the author and the article the most because it helped develop my argument’s credibility and I was able to correctly incorporate my sources into my writing. Overall, I am happy with how the English 110 course has helped me improve my confidence when I use the MLA conventions.
Example:
“Khullar explains that instead of pairing the disease with a death sentence, a patient may look at the disease ‘as a challenge’ and ‘an opportunity for personal growth, rather than an enemy to be defeated’ (Khullar).”
Because this is an online journal article, there are no page numbers. To cite Khullar in my essay, I added a signal phrasing and at the end I parenthetical citation.
