Blog Eight: Chapters 21 and 22

When writing a research paper, or any paper for that matter it is important to keep an updated work cited page. For the most part, all of my past work cited pages required MLA citations, and with MLA citation requirements constantly changing it can be difficult to make sure you are citing correctly. Since there has been an increase in the types of sources that are acceptable to incorporate in a paper, the MLA citation requirements need to constantly change in order to avoid plagiarism. In high school as long as my citations all look somewhat similar my teachers didn’t really make a citing sources a big deal. I felt this really cause trouble for me because once I started college because I didn’t realize the differences in citations, so I sometimes neglected to give the author the credit they deserved.