In my chosen work sample, project three, I believe my final draft displayed a clear understanding of MLA format. As easy as citing sources seems to be, questions still come up for me even after I feel like I’ve grasped it. During my peer review, my group and I went over local revisions to clean up our essays. A great example of this is while usual in text citations look like this: “quote”(Author). A block quotation has an in text citation that looks like this: “quote.”(Author) Something as simple as that can be easily mislooked by beginner writers. I also argued my point of having titles to an author’s writing italicized. A very helpful resource for me was the example paper in MLA format that my professor provided. It specifically states “Titles of published works (books, journals, films, etc.) are now italicized instead of underlined.” 

Another small but quick fix for sentence-level errors, specifically grammar, is my overuse of contractions. My essay had a lot of “I’m,” “She’d,” and “I’ve,” etc. Although they aren’t exactly errors, changing them to “I am,” “She would,” and “I have,” make my statements in my essay so much stronger. 

Overall, my ability to cite sources correctly has improved a lot since my first projects, and even from my first draft of project three. It’s funny to me that I was originally so adamant about citing sources like this “(p. 4, author).” It truly shows how much I have grown and improved in my ability to control sentence-level errors and have an overall strong essay using clear MLA conventions.