Taking ERWC has helped me improve in those areas. The controversial essay was the first essay we wrote and the only thing wrong with it was my punctuation because I was missing a lot of commas in my writing. For example, in my second paragraph I wrote “In 2014 a group named the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) formed”, and I need a comma after the year 2014. In a later essay, my proposal, I only forgot one comma, but a new problem arose. I received a fifty percent because according to the rubric, I did not attempt to follow MLA format when I did not include in-text citations. Because the proposal was more opinion based, I had trouble using sources to support my argument. For instance, I wrote “In the article…Kate Murphy explains…many schools are losing a lot of money”, and forgot to include where in the article I found what I summarized. In my most recent essay for the book Into the Wild, I made sure my MLA was adequate. When I cited quotes form the book I included the page numbers where they could be
Taking ERWC has helped me improve in those areas. The controversial essay was the first essay we wrote and the only thing wrong with it was my punctuation because I was missing a lot of commas in my writing. For example, in my second paragraph I wrote “In 2014 a group named the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) formed”, and I need a comma after the year 2014. In a later essay, my proposal, I only forgot one comma, but a new problem arose. I received a fifty percent because according to the rubric, I did not attempt to follow MLA format when I did not include in-text citations. Because the proposal was more opinion based, I had trouble using sources to support my argument. For instance, I wrote “In the article…Kate Murphy explains…many schools are losing a lot of money”, and forgot to include where in the article I found what I summarized. In my most recent essay for the book Into the Wild, I made sure my MLA was adequate. When I cited quotes form the book I included the page numbers where they could be