My citation skills evolved over the course of the semester by me learning new ways to formally write a citation. I learned how to properly write a works cited page like in my Discourse paper. I learned how to write the MLA citations in paragraphs while, instead of what I learned in previous years of school of including the authors last name in every phrase, I no longer do that. I now only state the author in the beginning of the paragraph and then include my quotes in the essay later. An example of this is in my Discourse paper as well. My work cited for my Discourse paper looked like this ( not including the bullet points) :

Work Cited

• Delpit, Lisa. “THE POLITICS OF TEACHING LITERATE DISCOURSE.” Power Privilege and discourse. 2001
• Gee, James Paul. “LITERACY, DISCOURSE, AND LINGUISTICS: INTRODUCTION.” The Journal of Education, vol. 171, no. 1, 1989, pp. 5–176. www.jstor.org/stable/42743865.

I feel like the other stages for MLA formatting were also easy to write about. On a previous page I wrote “An example of me using signal phrasing strongly in the discourse assignment is “If you can’t fully understand a discourse you may end up not fitting in with the “people who have already mastered the discourse” ( Gee, 7 ). ” The reason I believe the bold section is a good signal phrasing is because it gives a topic before reading the quote, giving the reader some knowledge before reading the actual quote.” I feel like this fits into how I can document my sources in MLA because it gives a better understanding on what you really can look for in any MLA signal phrasing and paraphrasing.