(Document Work MLA) – Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA) (Word count 203)

All throughout highschool, MLA formatting was strictly enforced. If we forgot to cite something, or made a mistake in citations we were at risk of losing points, and being accused of plagiarism. I was quite afraid of this, so I began to over worry about my works cited or in text citations. However, during my last year and a half of highschool I didn’t write a single paper. With that being said, I was a little rusty going into this year’s essays. I ended up not remembering to put a proper MLA header at the top of my first essay as you can see below. 

I also learned that after introducing the quote with the author, you do not need to use the author’s name in the intext citation. 

As for my work cited I needed to refresh myself on how to correctly cite with the use of “The Little Seagull”. I do still need to work on my citations as I did not remember how many different ways there are to cite literally any source. I will be keeping that book handy though as I also used it to cite my sources for my bio species report which was in CSE format.