Today I have scheduled a conference with my English professor to review the draft of my first major assignment of the course, it has been a bit since you heard from me here so lets refresh our memories.
My first assignment is an informative writing piece that will compare writing in my field of study, Mechanical Engineering, to other fields. This is to help me understand writing genres better and also hopefully gain a better understanding of writing as an engineer.
There is one goal that I must accomplish, and that is to learn how to correctly site a few sources that I am using in my assignment. I am not sure how to site them because they are not 'published' sources, but instead our sources written by other engineers during their course of study.
After getting out of my conference, I began applying all of the information on citing my source into my paper. The problem I was having with trying to cite my sources before had to do with the fact that those specific sources weren't published sources, this made citing them harder than if I were just using regular scholarly articles. But, I am glad that I chose to use these source instead of just giving up and changing my sources to make it easier on myself. These are both really good sources, and i was able to learn how to cite non published work because of my choice.
So all in all, I fell my conference went well. And I achieved the goal I gave myself earlier of learning how to cite my source.
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