Why is it useful for students to practice the MLA and APA citation methods?

Citing or documenting the sources used in your research serves three purposes:

It gives proper credit to the authors of the words or ideas that you incorporated into your paper.

It allows those who are reading your work to locate your sources, in order to learn more about the ideas that you include in your paper.

that without the operating systems you would have to control and synchronize computer hardware.