And you know how to use citations any time you borrow words or ideas from a source, whether it's a direct quote or a paraphrase. This time we'll look at plagiarism in music, which should be an interesting topic for you to read about and discuss with your peers. Then you will read several assigned articles to prepare you for writing your own synthesis essay.

Indonesia has already lost 24 small islands off Aceh, North Sumatra, Papua and Riau between 2005 and 2007 to rising sea levels due to climate change. It says that even Obama is trying to make people aware of the problem with his visit with fishermen in the remote coastal village of Dillingham, where the President wants a distracted public to see the jarring effects of global warming through his own eyes. It's a good kind of essay to help you start learning to use sources and to get ready for writing research papers.

Despite the dangers, more people are starting to think that taking on this challenge and going to Mars are worthwhile and beneficial to mankind. And in the fifth body paragraph, the writer talked about the problems that need to be figured out before a trip to Mars would work. The other thing I wanna show you is the sources that the writer put into the essay.

MLA format requires a heading that starts on the top line. And I'm going to show you how to write the date correctly, because it's gotta be in a special format. In some countries it's correct to use this right here, which is called justify text, and that makes all of the lines equal.