My experience with research and Citations has and still is a very indicative learning process that with time and more practice has become better. I’m by no means a big fan of writing research papers or any kind of paper that would require me to quote someone else and give the proper credit too. Though I don’t like it, I do understand why it is necessary. If I were left to me and only me, I would just read everything but for this context Citations are necessary for me as a student to communicate to someone else that I have done some kind of research and used a piece of information that isn’t my own. I also under why citations are so much more important in writing than they are in regular speech. It would really awkward to hear someone verbally say a citation after giving a speech. I can also imagine that being really hard to remember; however, with writing you can just jot the citation down and it will stay. I have had experience using MLA and APA formats for educational use during my high-school and college years. I cant remember that we paid as much attention to citation in high school like i have in college; it being more a requirement in college level writing. There was a paper I wrote in high-school that required citations for sure. A potential question I would have about the ECU statement on academic integrity is, say a student is writing a research paper and accidentally forget to cite a source but perfectly cite all of us information in the paper. Should that student be penalized if it were just a pure accident if that could be gauged? Another question is how the person reading could or grading judge whether something in the paper that is not cited is general knowledge or not?