In-Class Assignment for September 21

Please type your answers on the class Wiki.

1. Read Sandra G. Boodman’s article “A Boy's Obesity Led His Mother to Send Him For Stomach Surgery,” which appeared in the February 24, 2009 issue of The Washington Post.

2. Review “slice handout 2009” that is posted on Blackboard.

3. Now, concentrate on the first page of the SLICE handout that reads, “How to Avoid Citation Errors When Working With Sources.” Your assignment is to choose one passage from Boodman’s article and quote it in the different styles listed on p. 1 of the SLICE sheet. The different styles are listed below. In your citation, please use the newspaper article’s page number. Remember that if you use someone’s quoted passage that appeared in the article, your citation would read (qtd. in Boodman).

1. Full Quotation With Correct In-Text Citation:

Cheryl Burrill says, “I had to do this for him, no matter what” (qtd. In

Boodman HE01).

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