" Go mama"

Since starting college, I have felt like citing is one of those gray areas. I am always worried I am citing incorrectly. So much of citing seems to be instructor specific. Even if Little Brown handbook says to do it one way, in my experience, instructors have a way they like it to be done. For me, this puts my stomach in knots when I sit down to write a paper. I find joy in writing, not the citing part. I am all for giving credit where credit is due, however to me, when it comes down to citing it seems there are many ways to go about it.

Here are some of the basics of MLA Formatting(practical argument p 342)

• Use in text citations- Include just enough information for the reader to locate the source and the place from which it was borrowed
• Paper should have One inch margins all the way around
• Indent first line of each paragraph
• In the upper left hand margin put your name, Instructor,course, and date.
• A title 
• A works cited list

You do need rules inn writing, just as you do in life. A few days ago I was driving with my five year old son. We were stopped at a red light and some cars in the turning lane next to us received an arrow to turn. He quickly said, GO MAMA! I said I cannot go, our light is red. If I went a car could hit us. He said why cant they stop and we go, I said because that is the rules of the road, just like our rules at home and school. He said "I don't know why dere gotta be rules"? I replied, because they keep safe.

It does not matter if your five or fifty no one really like rules all that much, but they are put in place usually for good reasons.

A few Summers ago

This Summer, my youngest three.