While much of our effort in class revolved around analysis, an important aspect of our writing was still formatting and sentence structure. Formatting papers using MLA guidelines was not something I think we spent much time on, since it was understood everyone was able to format their papers. If we were unsure, there were resources we could use. My chosen work sample demonstrates my ability to use MLA in the formatting of the paper and in the citing of sources. Within each paragraph, each quote was correctly cited using the author’s last name and the page number. At the end of the paper, each source was correctly cited in a works cited page.
I also think that my paper two demonstrates my ability to make local revisions. My most typical error regarding sentence errors is awkward wording of sentences that I often miss when reading my paper before I submit it to a peer review. Also, sometimes I use wording that readers may not agree with. For example, in the first paragraph of my paper two draft, I used the word divided to describe how people intend to solve the population crisis. However, one of my peers suggested that people are not either on one side or another, but may support a solution in the middle which suggests that the world is not always divided when it comes to solving problems. Furthermore, there were some areas in my draft that were highlighted by my peers as unnecessary information that were removed from my paper for the final draft. While reading my draft, you would also notice choppiness where my ideas had been written down but not necessarily brought together at that point. Errors such as this one and awkward wording, brought to my attention by my peers, are small errors that I found were really easy to fix during the revision process. Fixing these smaller issues keeps the attention on my writing and ideas as a whole rather than distracting errors.
