Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).
Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, and spelling).
With the help of the book Little Seagull, I was able to correct all citations within my essays to follow the proper guidelines, depending on what types of sources I used. This helped with my works cited page as well as in-text citations. Using the book for the works cited page, I had learned about the different variety of formats needed for all different sources. While in class, we reviewed some other key points of MLA formatting. Within my writing I would need to cite any information I got from another article, even without directly quoting it. One thing I learned in class was that if I had mentioned the author in the same sentence as my paraphrasing or quote, I would not need to include it within an in-text citation. Also, there are different things to include within the in-text citations and works cited. I learned that if it was a TED Talk or video, you put the timestamp within the in-text citation. If you are including a page number from an article printed offline, you need to use the actual page number of the actual article; this can be done by downloading the article as a PDF to keep the proper page numbers. These are all guidelines that come from MLA to correctly cite and avoid plagiarism that I was able to follow from Little Seagull and the class discussions. Here is an example of my in-text citations from my Big Data essay, (Roski et al. 1116) (Kaplan 317) (Greenfield 6:50). Below is an example of an MLA citation from my Big Data essay as well as an in-text citation I used:
Greenwald, Glenn. Why Privacy Matters. TED Talk, October 2014,
https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters/up-next. Accessed 2
April 2018.
Kaplan, Bonnie. “How Should Health data Be Used? Privacy, Secondary Use, and Big Data Sales.” Bioethics and Information Technology, vol. 25, 2016, pp. 312-329. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Ethics. https://search-proquest-com.une.idm.oclc.org/central/docview/1771408595/fulltextPDF/5046E125ABEB4B41PQ/12?accountid=12756. Accessed 2 April 2018.
Roski, J., Bo-Linn, G., Andrews, T. “Creating Value in Health Care Through Big Data:Opportunities and Policy Implications”. Health Affairs. vol. 33, no. 7, July 2014, pp. 1115-1122. https://search-proquest-com.une.idm.oclc.org/central/docview/1545346412/fulltextPDF/5046E125ABEB4B41PQ/3?accountid=12756. Accessed 2 April 2018.
