LO: Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).

Having little experience with accurate use of MLA citation in high school, I believe I learned the most from learning outcome 5 “Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).” Previously, I no knowledge on how to correctly use in-text MLA citations, much less the difference in citing journals vs videos. Yet, by the final paper I demonstrated in-text use of MLA citation that was specific to the source being used. For example, I cited Christopher Soghoian’s TED talk as “(Soghoian, 2:41).” and Joshua Blumenstock’s scholarly article as “(Blumenstock, 1073).”. This different citations reflect by growth in learning on how to use MLA citations specific to the type of source; author and page number in the article, while speaker and time of the quote for the video.

In all honesty, my big datal final draft does not reflect adept ability of learning objective 6, “Control sentence level-error (grammar, punctuation, spelling)”, in the local revision process. While I was careful to refer to My Little Seagull in situations where I was unsure of correct use of punctuation, I had careless spelling mistakes. Specifically, “informatio” (Sanborn, 3) is a reflection of failure to effectively locally revise. This could be avoided by simply using spell check on Google Docs or reading the final draft aloud before printing.