TASK 9: Researching and referencing
When writing academic texts it is essential to research sources in order to support your arguments with evidence and scholarly opinions. This will clearly lead to more work as you need to make appropriate reference to your sources. This effort, however, will be spent well because any kind of serious writing that you will have to do in your professional life will require you to do research and reference your sources.
Imagine you have to write an essay on the topic: “Homelessness. Problems and Solutions”. You have broken down the topic to the following queries:
What is homelessness?
How big a problem do you think it is?
What causes homelessness?
What impact does it have on individuals and society?
What can be done to address this problem?
Now use a library to research these questions and find relevant information about each of them in a book, in a periodical and on the web. Devise in-text citations and works cited entries for each of your finds in accordance with the instructions of the MLA Formatting and Style Guide: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/