My ability to cite sources using the MLA guidelines has significantly improved since writing my first essay and the beginning of the semester. The Little Seagull Handbook in particular has helped a lot in teaching me the proper MLA format, and also how to cite things correctly. I have also become better at addressing my typical errors and making them less prevalent in my writing. I have always known that I tend to be wordy in my writing, and probably write a couple run-on sentences. However, in each of my essays I got better and better at picking out run-on sentences right away, and making the local revision to fix it. My Significant Writing Project shows my ability to do these things by having all of the quotes that were used in my essay correctly cited within my writing, and also cited in my Works Cited page. An example of a cited source in my Significant Writing Project is, “The Internet has not just given new ways of communicating but new ways of measuring ourselves”(Wasik 480). Also an example of a citation from my Works Cited page is, “Konnikova, Maria. “The Limits of Friendship.” Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers. Barrios, Barclay. Bedford/St. Martins. 2016. 235-241.” I have become very confident when it comes to citing my sources in MLA format, and integrating these cited quotes and sources into my writing. I have also improved on making local revisions to address my typical errors like I had said before. I saw less and less of my typical errors with each essay that I wrote, and I have become able to pick them out faster so that they could be fixed and revised right away.
