Instructions:

Go to the Newspaper Association of America (www.naa.org/hotlinks/index.asp) Web site, select a state from the map and then select a link to a newspaper. Browse the newspaper you select for any article, print the article and then circle or highlight any quotations you find in the article.

Then click on the link below.

http://phantom.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~caucus/caucus.html

Go to Caucus and join the discussion for "Lesson 10: Netiquette - Quotation in a News Source."

CAUCUS WILL SAY: Write a citation for the article you have just read from a newspaper you selected from the Newspaper Association of America Web site. Use the format for electronic newspapers you find at Electronic Sources:

APA Style of Citation (www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/apa.html)

Choose a notable quotation you have marked on the print-out of your newspaper article, add the quotation to the Caucus page, and state the name of the person who is quoted. Comment on why you think this quotation was used in the article. What information in the article is the quotation used to illustrate? How do you think the person who said would feel once he or she sees his own words published? Do you think he or she might have regrets about saying this? Why or why not?

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