Comment on what the chosen Chosen Work Sample shows about your ability to cite sources using MLA guidelines and to make local revisions to address your typical errors. You will likely draw from the ways your class has discussed sentence error and MLA. In this framing statement, be sure to include specific examples from the early and/or final drafts of your Chosen Work Sample (about 250-450 words).
It’s difficult to see and explain how I’ve grown in regards to local revisions and errors in formatting. These have been my specialty for so long that I can’t remember how or if I’ve improved. Plus, with auto-correct for spelling and grammar in google docs, there’s far less mistakes in that area. I guess the best way to see it would be in the paragraphs I transfer between. Their content cannot be so different that it is a jarring experience to shift between them, but they must contain separate ideas to argue for/against. In the first draft of essay 3, I didn’t know how the paragraphs were going to fit together. Their content was simply written as an idea or placeholder for when I would expand on it, but ultimately could not stand on its own with the rest of the essay. There are small things that I sometimes overlook and then have to go back to fix later when I remember them. Indenting the paragraphs definitely falls into this category as I almost forgot them in the final draft and had a moment of panic in the moments right before submitting it. You wouldn’t believe the level of relief at catching a mistake seconds before it’s permanent. As much as I don’t find this learning objective personally necessary, it’s probably a good one to be in this list, seeing as this is 110; pretty baseline and(I believe) a requirement for everyone. However, I really hope I never see this objective again because between the advanced facets of technology that catch our incorrect spelling and grammatical errors and the formatting work we had to do in high school, it seems silly to have something so basic as a continuous focus. There are probably sides to this that I’m not seeing; sides without the focus on the language arts that I had and which make me believe this stuff is obvious when it actually isn’t.
