Learning Outcome 5 and 6

Learning Outcome 5 and 6

In my chosen work sample the sources that I used are listed under a “Works Cited page” in MLA format, which can be seen in screenshot link that I attached. After looking back on my first final draft essay that I submitted one thing that was a notably large mistake regarding MLA format was the heading to my paper. The heading that included my name, the professor’s name, the date, and the class was located on the right side of the paper instead of the left. All throughout high school I put the header on the left and was never corrected on how to do it the right way. When it comes to local revisions in my paper, I was fixing small things such as incorrect punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraph structure. An example of this in my chosen work sample is when I was introducing the authors and their work in the introduction, I introduced them like, “Professional opinions on this problem can be found in “The Empathy Diaries” by Sherry Turkle and “Get Phones Out of Schools Now” by Jonathan Haidt.” Before I revised this, I did not put quotation marks around the titles of the articles. Another example of a typical error in my writing is my paragraph and sentence structure. I often did not start off with a clear topic sentence, which can be seen in my first draft of my chosen work sample, “Jonathan Haidt and Sherry Turkle are both in agreement that there is a major problem with the overuse of smartphones that is negatively impacting students in their ability to learn and attain new information”. This was the topic sentence for my first body paragraph. I revised this paragraph and changed it to have a legitimate topic sentence. The revised version is, “Holding thoughtful conversation is a main component of learning and attaining new knowledge but with the use of smartphones in classrooms it is making this exceedingly difficult”. This example shows that I can execute local revisions to my writing.

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