My Chosen Work Sample shows my most effective use of citing sources and applying the MLA format. This is because throughout the course I was able to continuously work on framing my essay to follow the MLA guidelines, so when it came to our third and final project, I had a good understanding of how to incorporate citations appropriately. A specific piece from my Chosen Work Sample that demonstrates my ability to cite sources is when I constructed the following, “Turkle emphasizes technology as a form of distraction when she writes, ‘we have become accustomed to a constant feed of connection, information, and entertainment. We are forever elsewhere’ (344).” Here I was able to introduce what piece of text I was going to be referencing and which authors those thoughts belonged to. Then following the quotation, I followed MLA guidelines by putting the page number in parenthesis. With this project we also had to cite our peers’ essays which is something new compared to our previous projects. Therefore, at the beginning of my drafting I was unsure how to accurately format in text citations as their essay was on UNEportfolio, where page numbers were not applicable. So, I initially began by stating the author’s last name as MLA suggests and then proceeded to state the quote in quotations, but no page numbers mentioned. Later on, I decided to put my peers’ essays in a document to then see what page numbers the quotations I used fell on. However, I found it was not necessary to try to determine page numbers for my classmates’ essays, which resolved my uncertainty of whether page numbers in parentheses are relevant. The last aspect about source citing comes down to the works cited page, in which overtime I learned how to build this page to meet MLA standards. Towards my earlier work I only was able to cite Turkle’s work as I was not familiar with what to include in my peers’ citations. Although I was informed on how to set up citations of my peers’ work, which is evident in my final draft that I included below. I took into account various MLA factors as well involving making my citations in alphabetical order, apply times new roman font in size 12, and double-spacing the text. It was also brought to my attention that the second line of citations should be indented. I was unaware of this in my previous papers and was therefore more successful in project 3 as I indented accordingly. Generally speaking, I made significant moves as my Chosen Works Sample demonstrates my effectiveness to cite sources under MLA guidelines to the best of my ability.

Works Cited

Briggs, Cote. “Technology Isn’t All Fun & Games: Here’s Why.” UNE Portfolio,       JOURNAL # 20 – ENGLISH COMPOSITION (uneportfolio.org). Accessed 5 April 2024.

Gagnon, Elizabeth. “Technology Essay.” UNE Portfolio, JOURNAL # 20 – ENGLISH COMPOSITION (uneportfolio.org). Accessed 5 April 2024.

Turkle, Sherry. “The Empathy Diaries.” PenguinRandomhouse.Com, Penguin Adult HC/TR, www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585731/the-empathy-diaries-by-sherry-turkle/. Accessed 26 Mar. 2024.