In my writing I use MLA or the Modern Language Association formatting. Throughout the assignments I have completed in English 110 I have practiced using MLA format writing, in-text citations, works cited pages, summarizing of readings, and quotes from the text to support my writing. In project 3, I used five quotes from The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir, by Sherry Turkle. This excerpt from my significant writing project shows my ability to use and give context for a quote from the text: “Sherry Turkle, sociologist, psychologist, and author, describes “practicing the empathetic arts” as “Learning to make eye-contact, to listen, and to attend to others.”” I used this quote to explain how Turkle defines the practice of empathy. Including quotes is essential to productive writing because without using direct evidence from the text I would be unable to support my thesis and fully prove my point.