Prior to completing multiple assignments over the course of week 3, the McGraw-Hill Connect has helped me in every aspects of developing a well written essay with its practice upon integrating sources within a writing piece. You might be asking, “Well what’s McGraw-Hill Connect and how is it helpful?”. It’s a practice session, that includes readings with information inorder to understand the topic and answer the questions provided. As many questions you understand and answer correctly, it gives you the ability to move forward and answer more different questions regarding that topic to be able to finish the concepts. If you don’t answer the questions correctly, you stay at the same level until you get an answer correct. Depending on how many questions you answer correctly within minutes, is the time you spend doing the assignment. But if you spend more time getting questions wrong, it slows the process of finishing.
From doing this practice session, I learned the accurate formats of citing sources upon in-text citations and a page that incorporates work cited in the style of MLA. This connects to the course objectives of giving accurate recognition upon someone’s ideas and work in any assignment that includes information that wasn’t constructed by you inorder not to plagiarize.
The highlighted parts show the use of in-text citations and the work cited at the end of the page in my recent Exploratory Draft #2 , as an indication of my learning.
This assignment demonstrates that I’m strengthening a key skill in my critical reading and writing skills with the concept of not plagiarizing and using sources to indicate my credibility upon my information/claims and showing that I’m a reliable writer to my audience. Learning this particular skill is important to my academic learning because it’s a technique that’s going to be used throughout my life within an academic setting, prior to moving on to WR 39C or in the case of work inquiries. As I want to become a detective in the future, requiring me to write memos and important documents among criminal actions/cases stating sources.
This is a significant visual representaion on how a citation is constructed in a MLA format.
This moment in learning provides me with more fundamental knowledge about the course objectives purpose to my future projects in this class and future work.The practice sessions on McGraw-Hill Connect, demonstrate that I’m becoming a member of a academicdiscourse community with the use of specific styles and formates of analyzing and constructing well written writing pieces within any genre and rhetorical figures. This particular learning is meaningful to becoming an academic writer because you want to be able to be a credible source of information while contributing others ideas in your work as reference. With mastering this skill, it’s important to my academic ethos for the following reason being that my audience can trust me as a credible writer based on the actions I take upon not plagiarizing and including citations.
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