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Post 7: MLA style for academic documents discussion

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 use the paper presented in this week's workshop " MLA format: citations and references" to evaluate a properly formed example of a citation. I just must put in the work to have better knowledge to form a correct MLA format academic document.  


  

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  1. Katelynn ChambersSeptember 20, 2022 at 5:39 PM

    I feel the exact same way! Figuring out when to italicize and when to not is definitely difficult; even following guides I always have doubts towards the final product. I feel it would be easier if I was using physical sources, like books, but for online sources it's always difficult to double and triple check whether the source is an article, paper, maybe just a website, or...

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  2. Sequoah BlogSeptember 25, 2022 at 8:03 AM

    Okay, so I am not the only one that feels that way. I agree. Hopefully, practicing will pay off in the future. I have been doing more research and getting help. Before I read the article first thing to check is the source Information.

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