Today we learned about the importance of paraphrasing, which is when you take someones words and shorten them or put them into your own which can help especially so you wont have very long quotes that can take up too much of your paper. We also learned about quoting which is very important in order to have sources in your paper you need to either quote them or paraphrase them. This essientially leads to the next topic we learned which was the format in how are papers are structured. The fun stuff... NOT! The MLA format is very specific(very specific) and has to be done correctly by citing sources in order to avoid plagiarism, and in order to have a properly formatted paper. If the MLA format is not done completely this will affect the grade you get no matter how good the paper is. Besides having to learn this format i have enjoyed my writing experiences and i plan to take what i have learned and use it in future classes.