Journal - Most students view siting work as 'a pain in the butt'. How do you feel about it? Is it necessary? When is it appropriate to cite work? What's the importance of it?
I think citing sources is a pain. I prefer to just copy and paste the website or just state the authors name in italics. MLA format is hard because it requires so much information and is a pain having to go search through information trying to find everything you need. I think that citing should certainly only be required for taking someone else's words. I think that taking a picture off of google is a little different because they posted it within a search engine knowing that it would be viewed publicly and used frequently. It is appropriate to cite your sources because people need to sift through what your ideas are and then other outside sources ideas. That is why our paper is not so much outside voice as it is our own words. In order to have an educated paper you need to cite your sources.
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