Citations

         We believe that citations are important because people deserve credit for their own ideas and innovations. Without giving credit to the original author, the writer would be stealing work that is not his or her own, which is plagiarism.  It’s also important because it shows how the ideas have changed and evolved over time with new research and input, and the reader must be able to trace the information contained within the essay back to its original source. People who are very interested in the subject are able to look up and read more in depth with particular ideas they found intriguing.

         We decided to use MLA citation style because it’s the style with which we are most familiar. In high school, when writing critical essays that require cited sources, we were taught to use this particular style of citing. MLA style also includes the year that the work was published and used, which is important for web information as it may change over time. It is important to recognize the aging of information when evaluating the credibility of a statement. MLA also uses in-text citations with names and titles, which make it easy to see where the information came from without having to refer to the bottom of the page or the works cited after the conclusion of the essay. Thus, our posts will have in-text citations with detailed MLA citations for each source cited internally in the bibliography, which will follow the text.