Word of the day: MLA or APA? by Margaret Leora Workman; Warponie Art

Word of the day: MLA or APA? by Margaret Leora Workman; Warponie Art
 
There are many online resources regarding this! I did not know what these acronyms stood for, so I looked them up on the internet. These are the names of different styles or versions of how to format your papers for colleges or any other place that requires it.
APA stands for American Psychological Association, this is correct!
And MLA stands for Modern Language Association.
When you have to write a nonfiction or fiction report of some kind with sources or comments from other people in your paper then you have to give credit to the author of the book, magazine, or website that you have chosen in your paper. Also, if you are trying to support a belief that you have about a topic in a paper or you just want to fill up space in a paper to get your desired word count up then resources are the way to go. I believe that you can’t quote someone and use that for more than 80% of your paper but please verify that. I also learned that it is best to use a website that isn’t a .com but a .org or a .net. Some professors will use their own sources and sometimes they use .com websites, but maybe that professor was able to prove to him/herself that it was a reliable resource. Websites that are .coms, usually have more opinions that have not been proven to be fact and are usually not officially published by a third party that has verified what that author has said is true or fact.
a person must prove where they found that information or it could be considered plagiarism. Whether you quote that person or if you sum up what they have said you have to cite it. First you have to use an in-text citation, and then the source for that citation has to be listed down below in the references section. There might be a couple of ways to use the in-text citations. One way is to directly quote them and then use parenthesis to list the author, year and page number. Remember, that direct quote has to be in quotation marks, and you have to indent that whole quote as well. I believe for MLA you do not have to list the page number, but I read somewhere that said that you do, but maybe that is for APA? There are many resources that you can find that have guidelines for each one and the specific number. Your college or whomever is requiring this to be done will tell you what the desired format is, and they will have to specify the number as well because every few years or so, they will come out with a different version, and you have to find those instructions for the different versions of APA and MLA. For anything that you write you have to give credit for what another person has said. For the references section at the bottom, you have to list it in the correct version of MLA or APA. Sometimes the periods or parenthesis are in a different order, or the year is included or not so it is really important to get that correct because what if you could have looked that up, but you didn’t want to take the time to find the right version. You miss one point on one of your references and that takes your A paper to a B paper. Some people really do not care. They just want to pass the class. What if you own a business and you are having trouble deciding between two people. Maybe you find out on the side that one person missed one on their references and got marked down for incorrectly citing it and the other person did not. Which one would you hire? I guess if you want your business to fail you will hire the one who missed that point. Maybe you think the person who missed that could be more valuable to your business for some reason. If you don’t know how to list the source just type into your search engine what type of source it is, and how you should cite it depending on the version. You will get some sort of answer. If you are in an online encyclopedia from your college or just on the internet, then look up at the top of that entry and it will enable you to click on a tab that will already have that source listed for you in APA or MLA style. You can copy/paste or drag it into your report from that encyclopedia entry. I want to send those people thank you cards who list those resources for us so that we can list it correctly.
If you agree with a person who has said something, and you want to say that in a general conversation, you do not have to tell people that another person has said that so that is what you are saying as well unless you are talking to someone who is very inhumane and they require proof for all of your opinions and why you have that opinion. Isn’t it enough that you could just think of your own opinion??