Critical Thinking Questions Case 2-1 Your Friend Riley Knows That

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 2-1 Your friend Riley knows that you have a lot of experience with proofreading works cited pages from your time as a graduate student and now as a professional researcher. Her most recent research paper is the first example of a paper on which Riley has worked that will use websites as sources. Can you help her indicate which of the following is a correct and complete citation for a website?

• A) Cashman, Thomas J. How a USB Flash Drive Works. Course Technology. 14 April 2011.
• B) Cashman, Thomas J. Course Technology. 14 April 2011.
• C) Cashman, Thomas J. How a USB Flash Drive Works. Course Technology.
• D) None of the citations above is correct.

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