Everything Changes, MLA isn’t Always Right

Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn’t (Always) Right by Janice R. Walker
Change is something that happens to everything. Nothing remains unchanged forever. This is true for things that are considered “uniform.” MLA is standardized and many people regard it in a kind of “Sacred.” But they fail to consider that outside of academics, everything does not have to be so standard. This means that citation can be considered part of Rhetoric. How and who you site effect what the reader thinks, and contributes to the experience of reading the piece as a whole. The point of the standardization is to make is easy for academics to recognize information that was used.
This relates to our Annotated bibliography. While In class we are still expected to make our MLA citations correct, who we cite and the sources we chose are still part of our own unique rhetoric. What sources we choose are exactly that, only we get to choose them. We control what the reader sees and by picking sources this is effected.