The Formatting of MLA style is highly regarded throughout this course and my significant writing project. MLA is apparent in how I format my quotations, headers, and work citied page. When integrating quotes into a paper, you must be able to cite the work correctly and accurately in order to confirm authenticity of the quote. For example, in my latest paper I wrote, on page 4 of “What’s for Suffer”, ‘Jonathan Safran Foer, states, “What our babysitter said made sense to me, not only because it seemed so self-evidently true, but also because it was the extension to food of everything my parents had taught me. We don’t hurt family members. We don’t hurt friends or strangers.” As shown in this example I explained who the quote came from, although I didn’t add the page number the quote came from, I still gave credit to the author on his work. I did this in my final page of the paper the Works Citied page. This page references the works of credible authors that helped me write my paper. Although JSF was an article on the web I found in MLA guidelines the correct way to cite his work. It’s important to follow the MLA guidelines when writing in college because it maximizes the quality of the paper while ensuring a correct formatted paper. Working with MLA guidelines has taught me how to make local revisions in my paper, by going back and seeing if my header is placed in the right spot along with the correct format of inserting a quote. MLA also shows many ways to integrate other authors into one text which we did a lot in this course.
