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Similarities: 1. Both indicate page numbers 2. They both are double spaced throughout the entirety of the paper 3. When there is a quotation of 40 or more words or 4 or more lines then a space of about 5 to 7 spaces are indented about a 1/2 in and used for those quotes Differences: 1. Along with page numbers, MLA indicates the author's name while APA does not 2. APA has a whole introduction page for the title, author and other things, while MLA starts on it's first page 3. APA has first level headings that are both bold faced and centered 4. MLA has pictures positioned closest to the text it relates and has picture number, caption, and parenthetical documentation 5. MLA gives name, teacher, class and date on the title page: all on upper left-hand side

Now at first glance this assignment seems heavily favored in the direction of the scientific way of writing, where even if your intended field of study isn't scientific, this assignment will be in the style of a scientific analysis of your intended field, meaning it will not be a normal writing assignment that you may be used to back in high school, where it was mostly opinionated. I believe this assignment will be more factual and analytical while taking on a new way of writing that most of us have not experienced before. Now for my intended field of study, physical therapy with an emphasis on biology, I have written lab reports in the past, but in a more generic and unspecified type of way, where there wasn't a set of concrete guidelines to follow and understand. In this assignment I hope to understand the nature of writing that my field of study requires and expects me to write, opening and broadening myself to a new genre of writing. 3 Questions/Confusions about the assig...