BBG Ch.13 "Integrating and Documenting Sources"Remix-Blog#7

So despite the fact that I had already learned a lot of the information that was in this chapter in my Dual Enrollment ENC 1102 class, I felt that this was an excellent refresher for someone who is getting ready to submit a Annotated Bibliography draft next week. In high school I wasn't taught how to professionally do an MLA or APA Bibliography until my junior year when I took AP Language & Composition. The main thing that always catches my eye when relearning this type of content is how someone paraphrases content from a source. They will begin their own sentence, and then start quoting an author as if the language itself is going off a tangent in a very condensed and divided manner. Afterwards, as mentioned in Chapter 13, you must give credit by putting this after your quote: (Author’ Last name, Page Number of the work that you found the quote on). Going off on my own tangent, when my current English class went to a presentation at the campus library, the speaker -just like Chapter 13- emphasized how there are no good or bad sources, but that whatever source(s) you personally feel you can get the most out of for your paper is the one(s) you should use. From there you can use resources such as RefWorks and JSTOR to organize your citations into the format required in the MLA/APA Bibliography format. And from there you seperate your sources by indenting the lagging lines underneath the start of each source. As I mentioned earlier, these techniques were taught to me before, but with MLA and APA formats constantly changing, a refresher never hurts.