10/3/16 Ben Lee

Today in class we learned how to effectively use evidence in an essay. Evidence is a vital part of any essay, for it provides the meat of a paragraph, something to examine and the explain your topic sentences. For our class we'll mostly use MLA format to cite any quotes we pull from the texts. With the the 8th Edition of MLA coming out the format has changed slightly, so be careful on using online sources to help you cite anything you use, it may be incorrect because of it being an older version.

MLA looks something more or less like this, with the exclusion of #4, 5, 6, and 9. The author can be exchanged for director in the case of a movie, but it must be written as "Dir. First Name Last Name." The container is what medium was used to view the text, whether it be a book, or Netflix if it was a show or movie. The publisher is the company that produced the text, such as Marvel. Simply put, whoever provided money for the book to be written or the movie to be made. It's also important to write the title correctly, with it being italicized, or underlined if handwritten. All major works should be treated this way, books, movies, magazines, even US vehicle names. Depending on what you want to focus on in your essay, the title of the text can be put in front of the author's or director's name if you want to focus on the text itself. The other way is where you focus on the Director's choices in the film, and what they could symbolize or mean.