Choices

The choices we make every day are influenced by outside forces whether we realize it or not.  From the coffee we drink to the car we drive to work, there are many factors that go into making a simple or big choice. Writing a paper is no different.  For the last eight years  I’ve been told to write an essay or paper in a certain format called “MLA” format and that this was the correct way to write anything that was to be submitted for grading. No exceptions. Since most of what I wrote ended up being turned in, I got so used to writing the MLA way that I habitually started doing it on my notes and other things that I didn’t hand in. So the choices in my paper we heavily influenced by the way I have been writing papers for majority of my school career and the way I have conformed to them.