Learning Outcomes 5&6: MLA & Sentence Level Work

Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA) & control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling)

My MLA formatting has gotten better, especially my signal phrases. In my first paper they were basically non-existent. My citations have always been good (i would say) and I have citing a quote mastered (unless I’m quoting a quote).

A quote from my first essay

As you can see my citations are perfect, however I don’t use a signal phrases or let the reader know that at the end of that long sentence, a quote is there, and it will probably just confuse them. There is one thing that I always forget to do when it comes to works cited; alphabetize. In the picture below of my works cited I clearly put Paul Bloom before David Foster Wallace.

Sentence level work has and will always need work. When I write something down it almost never comes out the way I want it to. The thesis of my second essay was quite wordy and confusing to read.

The wording is very confusing and you need to reread it to make sure you understand it fully. In my third essay, it is quite the opposite. It is short, gets to the point and takes a side.

It gets to the point I’m trying to make while making an argument for me to go off of. I think this was the best thesis I wrote this year.