So far in the semester there have been a lot of “firsts” for
me in this class. It was my first time writing a causal analysis and now this
will be my first time writing a research paper. I know for me research is
something challenging because I often find myself looking up the topic and
reading or seeing something else interesting and getting way off topic with
what I am looking at. Not only do I need to be careful with getting off topic
with research but making sure my sources and research is credible and accurate.
MLA
format always has been and always will be one of the most confusing things to
me. I find it a little irritating how picky it is but I know it’s something that’s
expected in almost every college level class. Every time I have had to turn in works cited
in MLA format I’ve almost always had several issues with it. It was encouraging
to me to see that in “How to Write Anything” there in an entire chapter that
goes over MLA citation. I know this will be a big help to me in writing this
paper and for many papers in the future.
The first research paper, huh? What has happened to high school education? I did a couple of research papers in high school. I doubt that I'd care to see them again as the levels of butchery would be epic. But at least I had an idea of where to go with them when I got to college. But, me and the textbook have your back. And so do the library databases as they pretty much cite your sources for you (you just do a little bit of tweeking to make sure they are formatted in your works cited correctly).
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