Learning Outcome 5and 6: MLA/ Surface Level
In high school, MLA format was drilled into my head so that I could never forget it. I understand that a lot of people struggle with MLA format and I am lucky enough that I have learned it early in my career. One of my papers that has many great examples of MLA format is My Big Data Project. For example, Wullianallur Raghupathi, Viju Raghupathi point out in their article titled Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: Promise and Potential that big data can be used in the form of “Statistical tools and algorithms to improve clinical trial design and patient recruitment to better match treatments to individual patients, thus reducing trial failures” (3). This properly displays the page number after the quotation followed by a period. I did not include the author’s name in the citation because I stated it in the sentence before. Not many people know that you are allowed to do that which is why I selected this quote. Surface level errors are things that I used to frequently struggle with. The method that I use now is to read my essay backwards out loud so I can separate each sentence from context and notice if anything is spelled wrong or missing punctuation.
