The only real pattern of errors that were identified for me was the lack of citing my paraphrasing. I oftentimes didn’t include MLA citations within my paper after I paraphrased sections of the articles I pulled from. I did well with in-text citations when it came to citing exact quotes, but the paraphrasing was a bit more difficult for me. For our lesson plan, we decided to focus in on MLA format and in-text citation for short quotes, long quotes, paraphrasing, and adding or omitting words in quotations. Easy ways to spot and fix these errors are to overlook your writing when you’re finished and ensure that every time you discuss another work, you’re giving credit to it. So, if you’re ever talking about another work or article you need to write either the author, page number, or the date the article was published. For short quotations, you just need to put the author’s last name and the page number you quoted from in closed parentheses after what you quoted. Make sure not to include the parentheses with the author’s last name and the page number within the quotations themselves. This should go after and then the sentence should be ended with the correct punctuation or with a comma immediately following it. When you’re citing longer quotes you want to make sure that the whole quotes, you’re citing are indented ½ an inch and then you would just site them the same way you would a shorter quote. If you’re omitting words in a sentence you want to make sure that you just insert three periods in place of the words you’re omitting. If you’re adding a word into a quote you need to place brackets around it to signify, you’re adding a word. As far as paraphrasing goes when you’re citing a paraphrase you just need to put the authors last name into closed parentheses after your paraphrase and before the punctuation at the end of the sentence. For our lesson plan, we decided to identify correct use of MLA and when to use it and then we put up examples of MLA being used correctly and incorrectly. This will help teach the class about the correct uses of MLA because people will be able to identify patterns of where MLA is used correctly and incorrectly. After we state how to properly utilize MLA before showing the examples, they’ll also be able to identify how to implement these methods. Other ways to identify your error patterns in your essay is to have other peers review your paper. Sometimes when you’re reading over your own work you don’t always catch the mistakes, you’re making so having someone else look over your work and catch you on these things can be very helpful. Oftentimes people use MLA and just don’t format it correctly. The problem isn’t always not using MLA at all, it’s not using it correctly.

Grammar Mini Lesson:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nonJ3J3OXG84970j-olbjmQh21cnardmYNDiFsomBAA/edit#slide=id.p