My ability to cite sources is rusty but has improved since the beginning of the school year. My experience with citing sources was very lenient, despite them always saying how important it is to cite in college. I wish they made it a big deal so it would prepare us for college. It is not only a big deal in college. It is a big deal in any field you go into. Despite this, I have grown. I need to work on most in-text citations because they vary depending on the citation type. So I always get confused about what type of text citation it is. My sentence structure when initial drafting is always focused on ideas and not making sure it is readable to others. Once I get my ideas out, I always loosely fix sentence structure to be more precise but not precisely the correct way it should be written. For example, in my 800-word draft of Project 2, I wrote, “Emotion can change one’s perspective about anything. However, invalidating emotions is immoral as it can make one feel unimportant or mean nothing.” The sentence structure here is clunky and very broad with my ideas. Compared to my final draft version, “In all beings, perspective is based on personal experience that dictates one’s emotions—further explaining human nature’s tendency to invalidate emotions if their own experiences do not match another’s.” When comparing the two versions of project 2, I elaborate on my ideas and make it clear to the reader what I mean.