When I have a research project I normally find a topic and research. Then I start writing and do more research. Sometimes I end up changing my topic to fit my research. The research is the fun part, the only thing is that it is very time consuming so it is hard to find the time to do as much as research as I would like to. APA formating is used the most often with sources related to social sciences while MLA is used most often for papers that have liberal arts and humanities sources. To be honest I really don't know much about either of them. I've only ever used MLA formating so this will be a new experience.
Citing the authors is an important part of any paper. If any person wants their paper to sound credible then they need to have other peoples findings on the topic in their paper. With out citing the authors that the information was found in then no one will think your paper is factual. The audience needs to have evidence and needs to be able to check that evidence. If the evidence isn'y able to be checked out then how does the audience know that the source you found was credible. Or maybe the author of the paper took certain things out of context and didn't consider the article they found it in as a whole.
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it is interesting to find that u change ur topic to fit research at times, cuz in china , what we do is find suitable source to support our topic.
and, we dont have work cited page for our qutation, cuz all we can use is like commone secne. if we use somebody's word, even not directly, we are in trouble.
hi, Lana. your experience is an interesting one to me because I never change my topic during my research. time is really a difficult thing to handle. to me, time is always limited. So I don't have enough time to do as much research as I want to. So I just do what the teachers ask me to or what exactly related to the topic. And about the MLA style and APA style, that's one thing that confuse me most. I'm still working on it. Hope I can use them correctly as soon as possile. :)
It is a good rule to follow. It can protect the original author’s right so well that people have willing to do creative jobs. On the other hand, to follow this rule people need to be educated since very young.
Hi lalo,
Your essay is very interesting. You said,"Sometimes I end up changing my topic to fit my research. The research is the fun part, the only thing is that it is very time consuming so it is hard to find the time to do as much as research as I would like to." After I think of it carefully, I think you are right and your situation would be many others'. I agree that research is the fun part and it would attract people's eyes. However, I believe if you could change your topic very well, it would also be a good essay and we would like it as well. Therefore, you don't need to worry it.
All in all, I like your attractive essay very much.
Actually, I think to do the reach is more interesting than write an essay. Every time I write my essay, I feel I am going to die because I always have no idea. Also, I am not familiar with the American writing’s formats; maybe that’s also a big problem for me. The solution for this issue is only practice hardly, although I don’t like it.
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