Blog 4 Writers Resource

In this week’s readings we had the choice of blogging about either Omnivore’s Dilemma, They say, I say, and Writers Resource. I choose to blog about the Writers Resource. In the Writers Resource there are 3 types of citation style that we can use throughout the course of this semester. We only had to read about one that we would be using. I read about MLA style citation because that is the one I am more familiar with than APA and Chicago. In tab 6 of the Writers Resource it explains how to cite your sources from books, periodicals, electronic and or web site. It also explains how to do an in text citation. This basically is summarizing or quoting what another has to say in your sentence and putting the author name in parentheses after your sentence.

I have looked at the other tabs; APA and Chicago in the Writers Resource. The APA style citation I am also familiar with because I have used this style in writings I have done in the past but I prefer the MLA style better than the APA style. For the Chicago Style goes I have never heard of this style of citation before so I wouldn’t be comfortable using this in my writings.