In "So You've Got a Writing Assignment," Corrine E. Hinton offers writers many suggestions on her views that can apply to us. Of the 10 suggestions discussed suggestion number 3 sticks out the most to me. This suggestion is "Know Your Purpose and Your Audience". When starting a paper you should always know your purpose of it and understand it. You can't form the paper with the thesis and supporting details as it should be if you don't truly understand your purpose for the paper. Corrine E. Hinton states in "So You've Got a Writing Assignment," (22) "Audience is a critical component to any writing assignment, and realistically, one or several different audiences may be involved when you're writing a paper in college". I agree with this statement very much. Knowing your audience is a key factor in a successful paper. You want to be able to engage with the reader with information that can be understood and relatable to them. Do research on your audience to know what you need be able to reach them.
Writing in general is already a daunting task for myself. When you start to have guidelines added in such as having to use a certain format like MLA style it becomes even more so then. Forming Proper MLA style for academic documents is an area I know that I need more work in. When it comes to the MLA format within my academic paper my biggest weakest is forming the cite page. I know that I must give the sources the proper credit. I know that when adding the citations, I need to make sure I put the author, the title, the publisher, the published date, the URL, the accessed date. The part I struggle with the most though is knowing what parts need to italic and which parts should not. I double guess myself and then I am at a point of uncertainty preventing me from finishing a correct work cited page. I intend to clarify my struggles with the work cited page in MLA format for my academic papers by doing thorough research on how a proper citation is formed and the aspects of it. I can also ...
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