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MLA Class Reflection

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Throughout the semester, I have learned a lot of useful tools and techniques that will and have been useful, not just for fulfilling this class, but for other classes as well. There are things I still struggle with, like getting topic sentences correct and making sure my works cited page is up to MLA standard, but I have also gained a lot of knowledge as well. In all of the previous essays, part of the assignment was to read, reflect, and respond critically to the text. This part, to me, was the easiest as I have been doing this for a long time, however, I have never done it in a annotated bibliography form. Doing that essay has helped me throughout my other classes where I’ve had to get many academic sources and respond to them critically …show more content…

I had only written in this style a couple times so I struggled a bit on trying to make sure I could explain my reasoning behind my thesis correctly. There has to be a correct writing style in each essay in order to display the information and purpose to the audience in the correct way. The last two essays has a more formal voice but also argumentative as I tried to persuade the audience to think about the things I was expressing in my paper. I am still getting used to writing in this style, but because I had to write that way this semester, I will definitely keep working on it throughout my school years. It is very important to make sure to proofread and edit the paper to relieve it of grammar and usage errors in a academic essay. I did struggle with this some as with all of my other classes it was hard to find time to proofread it or get someone to read and help me proofread it. I still need to work on seeing the errors and fixing them in an essay. Using the textbook and OWL definitely helped me learn how to fix issues as well as let me have a way to look up things I wasn't sure conformed to MLA format. Using these websites will definately be a useful tool down my school

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