Michael Macdonald Rhetoric blog

Similarities 1. Any information used must be given credit and sources. 2. Parenthetical citations. 3. Paper is double spaced. 3. Information must-have a reference. 4. Information needs to be cited. 5. Have a reference page. Differences 1. For MLA you use your author's name and page number and for APA you use the author's name and date. 2. MLA is typically used in the humanities. 3. "Works cited" need to have the last name. 4. APA is typically used in the social sciences. 5. APA works cited needs to be at end of the page.

This assignment to me is trying to get the writer to focus on how any read is written in your field of study.  For me, that's Sports Rec. and Management plus Enterprise leadership. The writings they would want me to look at would be writings that are scholarly detailed in my field which is academic writing and writings that are for a mass audience which is non-academic writings.  I feel they want you to know the difference between them to better understand the differences.  Also to analyze both and get a better awareness of your field and how to write in your fields.  This assignment to me wants you to know what you have to do to accomplish your goals in your fields and the discipline you have to put on yourself to do so. This assignment can actually help you with a lot of things if you really get into it. 1. What if you were an open major and didn't know what to write about? 2. How do you get into detail about the discipline factor in the assignment? 3. Does the ...

Hello, my name is Michael MacDonald and I feel my strongest attributes as a writer are my creativity throughout my writing, and my will to never slack on any of my writings. My biggest concerns about my writing are vocabulary correctness and making sure I added every detail I wanted too. The skills I would most like to learn is to make everything sound more smooth.