I feel as far as MLA citations go, I have a pretty strong sense on how to do this. In high school we pretty much only worked with MLA, so I’m very familiar with it. My quotes and paraphrases went well in my first essay, and my works cited was on point. There weren’t any MLA revisions I made from rough draft to final draft other than the part that I got so caught up in my paper, I forgot my headings!

In my essay I did make one slight error when I paraphrased. See below.

Hallward states, shame is considered a lethal public threat, simply meaning, shame can be deadly. “…suicide is now one of the causes of death, top ten for this country” (4:00), states Hallward.

Instead, I should’ve used the MLA signal phrase. Hallward states, “…suicide is now one of the causes of death, top ten for this country” (4:00).