Learning Outcome 5/6

Learning Outcome 5/6

While reviewing my Chosen Work Sample, I can see my progress in citing sources while accurately using MLA guidelines to make local revisions to improve my writing overall. In the early drafts of my paper, it revealed inconsistencies within my MLA formatting. For example, I didn’t add the date or the page number with the last name in the top right corner of my paper.  I also forgot to double-space my entire paper and did not correctly format my Works Cited page according to the MLA style that we have to do. After receiving the feedback from my peers, I was able to correct this by making sure that my MLA format was formatted consistently. In my paper, one of my most frequent errors really involved sentence fragments. For example, I first wrote “In contrast, Sherry Turkle, she warns people on how the ways technology is able to diminish and weaken human relationships,” which was a very strange and redundant sentence. I then changed it to, “In contrast, Sherry Turkle warns that technology can diminish and weaken human relationships.” This sentence improved by removing the “she” and improving the overall clarity of my sentence. With these revisions, I have been able to strengthen my overall understanding of both MLA citation practices, along with sentence-level clarity and the flow of my paper as a whole. This whole process has improved my writing and has helped me show my ideas in a more organized, polished, and even in a more professional way than before.

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