In my significant writing project I demonstrate the ability to create a works cited and use in text citations in MLA format.  With the help of my Little Seagull Handbook, I was able to cite two different kinds of sources which were the scholarly articles and the student literacy narratives.  The student literacy narratives were a little tricky at first, however I did figure it out.  We went over these in class along with the variety of categories they could have fallen under.  As far as in text citations, I used (Author last name page number) at the end of quotes or if I used the authors name to introduce a quote I just used (author last name).

Examples:

Sponsors are important in literacy narratives because they are essentially the influencers who “lend their resources or credibility to the sponsored but also stand to gain benefits from their success, whether by direct repayment or, indirectly, by credit of association” (Brandt 167).

In Brandt’s writing, she describes how the economy affects people’s literary skills, “At the same time people’s literate skills have grown vulnerable to unprecedented turbulence in their economic value, as conditions, forms, and standards of literacy achievement seem to shift with almost every new generation of learners” (166).