Blog Post #5

EW2-020

June Choi

November 14, 2015

The Process of Obtaining My Knowledge Ownership

I’ve learned so many things in English Writings 2 class so that my knowledge in English writing has resulted in improvement. One of the acquirements in knowledge is citation. My professor, Gary went over so many lectures about citation in class and after class, and has always pointed out to include citations as APA format. I never experienced citing sources with APA format, so it took me a lot of time to figure about. Although I used the citation machine and tried to clarify where the sources came from, some sources were uncertain that I could rarely find information about the sources. Therefore, I had to look up Goolge and to study by my own to be clear with APA format. From now on, I am quite brilliant at utilizing APA format while citing and can confidently say aloud that I could apply the knowledge to other writings besides blog posts. At first, I wasn’t sure why Gary emphasizes having citations is so important and actually disliked spending so much time in explaining the importance of citations. However, after I posted several writings on my blog, I realized that having citations makes my writings more professional and credible. Moreover, credibility of source makes my writings reliable, and the support of my thesis is much stronger. More citations makes increase in reliability and helped me to shape my supporting sentences as well. I think, because of the importance, Gary talked about credibility of sources throughout two class periods, and I clearly understood why the citation is crucial in order to perfect my writings. In brief, I became acknowledged with the importance of citation, and I believe the knowledge is about to start to be embedded in my blog posts.