To complete the action of using MLA guidelines is a task that can be quite simple, if you know what you’re doing. It can be challenging to format it just so that it comes across in the proper format. The basics of citing using MLA format are citing the author, last name then the first name, then listing the title of the article, then listing the date on which it was published, with day first, month next, then year. In the case of my example for my Chosen Work Sample, I included the url of where the article is located. Previous to this class, I had been unable to perform MLA citations without the assistance of a program such as Easybib or something along those guidelines, but after this class I am able to fully and thoroughly cite each source following the MLA guidelines, a invaluable skill for writing and citation in the future. As far as being able to make local revisions to deal with regular, typical error, I would say my skills have further increased, since we did review sentence level error in class, and I’ve always found that each and every time I write and have to fix those simple errors, my abilities to detect them and fix them get better and better. Although the phrase “practice makes perfect” may be slightly misleading as you really can’t be entirely perfect, practice does indeed make better and better as repetition improves just about any and all skills one uses.
Example:
Widdicombe, Lizzie. “The End of Food.” The New Yorker, 5 May 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/12/the-end-of-food.
