- Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).
- Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
Prompt: In a section titled Learning Outcomes 5 and 6, comment on what the chosen Significant Writing Project shows about your ability to cite sources using MLA guidelines and to make local revisions to address your typical errors. You will likely draw from the ways your class has discussed sentence error and MLA. Be sure to include specific examples (about 150-450 words).
Out of all the writing projects we completed over this semester, the one that portrays my best writing abilities is project number two, the Meal Analysis Essay. In this piece, I really dove into the topic at hand and, in my opinion, served up one of the best essays I’ve ever written (food pun). For me, following the rules of the MLA format has always been easy, but this project really gave some struggle considering there were multiple pieces of different formats. By this, I mean that some of the articles were digital and some were paper, so it was a matter of finding out how to actually cite in text quotes and the works cited page. The local revisions in this project also helped tremendously. Since we, my peer review group, were familiar with the process from the prior project, we knew how to be critical enough so that our essays could be at their best. In addition to all of that, the class time we had to review and go over other peer’s essays really helped me out. It gave me the ability to look at other people’s work and take from that to improve my piece.
