Evident by my Showcase Writing Project I have shown my abilities to cite sources and to make local revisions.
One must cite the source when used within the work, and at the end of the work in the form of a Works Cited page. In my Showcase Writing Project, I have cited a variety of sources such as the chapters of books and a podcast. These sources I have cited through in text citations, which vary depending on which medium one is citing. The following represent the few ways I have used in-text citations to cite selections from a chapter in a book as well as from a podcast.
In the selection from his book, Herzog describes a story about Carolyn, who works as a primary caregiver for a manatee named Snooty. After giving up on vacations early in order to return to Snooty, Carolyn’s husband “accused her of having her priorities screwed up, of loving a half-ton blob of blubber and muscle more than she loved him” (3).
Caitlin Doughty touches upon the emotional impact of cremating bodies. She claims that “You get used to it, in a way. I don’t mean to get callous, but it becomes a reality of your workplace because… you can’t take in the full existential despair…working with the bodies…every time or you just wouldn’t be able to come to work every day” (05:02-05:46).
As well as these in-text citations, I have also created a Works Cited page as one can see as the concluding page of my Showcase Writing Project. Through the revision process, I have also corrected local level revisions of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. These corrections have come from both re-reading my work and finding errors myself and as feedback from my peers. As evident by the third and eleventh comment a peer has made, there were some grammatical errors to be fixed before handing in my work. Then, as you can see by my final draft, these changes were made.
