Missed fourty points

mane i missed fourty points today, well over the weekend and i care but what can i do. i plan on writing an exceptional paper. but, i do not know how to cite my work correctly and i have no altenate sources with whom to compare or contrast the speech. which is not important because it is not a persuasive speech. it is a rhetorical analysis which i know nothing about. i am a visual learner with new information i have to seen how it is done and how it works. then i can apply the concept myself