The commonly used writing formats include APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago or Turabian. ... Secondly, the other widely used fort is MLA which stands for 'Modern Language Association'. MLA mostly focuses on the Humanities discipline such as the arts, English, and music. ... MLA format is also able to establish credibility as it helps demonstrate the awareness of the needs of the target audience. ... Chicago format knows how to handle punctuation, and the information can be found quickly as compared to MLA and APA. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sometimes students are required to use different writing formats like MLA or APA and they are hard to do correctly, especially if they have never use it before. The grey pages hold all the pointers and formats for MLA style format and the light pastel pink pages are for the APA style format. ... For instance, in the MLA style chapter there is a "books" section, and under that there is an "Important Details for Citing Books" section and then that section is broken up by the number of authors the book has (471-2). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Related Objectives • effectively engage in group writing and projects • respond constructively to peers' papers • critique their own and others' work in written and oral formats • seek and use feedback from instructors and writing tutors • engage in writing-to-learn activities Outcome 3: Purpose/Audience Awareness Students will write clearly for a specified audience and purpose. ... Related Objectives • understand the conventions of common academic writing (such as reading responses, blogs, listservs, message boards, academic argu...

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• Grade Level: High School