Citing is important in the academic world so that credit is given to the rightful owners of intellectual property. If an author publishes work and can express a new, novel idea, this idea is deemed to be rightfully his. For the integrity and betterment of academia, it is important that these rightful owners can feel safe publishing their ideas knowing that they will be credited for them. It helps to promote new and innovative ideas, because intellectual property rights are respected and enforced, which helps people build off of one-another's ideas instead of taking them.
We will be citing the sources we use for the remainder of our blog posts in order to establish our legitimacy as authors and to give credit to the authors who we are referencing to. We will be citing the sources we use in MLA format. This link will give you an idea of the structure of MLA formatting: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/. We chose MLA over other forms of citation, as it is a universally accepted format and one we are all familiar with.
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