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1. Student’s Sentence:

Two years ago, about 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen had been killed by what scientists deemed “sudden aspen decline,” also known as SAD (Nijhuis 26).

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1- students sentence
" By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name – “sudden aspen decline,” or SAD "(Nijhuis 26).

Each of the following exercises shows the original source, and then a student’s sentence and/or citation about that source. Each sentence and each citation has at least one thing wrong with it (most have more than one). Correct each of them and submit your answers in the box below. Numbers 1-3 use Source A, numbers 4-6 use Source B, and numbers 7-9 use Source C.

Source A: an article entitled “What’s Killing the Aspen?” by Michelle Nijhuis, found in the December 2008 edition of Smithsonian magazine, volume 39, no. 9. The article goes from page 26 to 27, and this paragraph was taken from p. 26.

Original paragraph:

By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name – “sudden aspen decline,” or SAD – and the devastated acreage had more than doubled, with some 13 percent of the state’s aspen showing declines. In many places, patches of bare and dying treetops are as noticeable as missing teeth, and some sickly areas stretch for miles. Aspen declines are also underway in Wyoming, Utah, and elsewhere in the Rockies. Surveys of two national forests in Arizona showed that from 2000 to 1007, lower-elevation areas lost 90 percent of their aspens.

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Hold on while I read all this ...
" By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name – “sudden aspen decline,” or SAD "(Nijhuis 26).

The only correction needed is to use single quotation marks to indicate a quotation within a quotation: ... a name - 'sudden aspen decline,' or ...

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All the rest seems incomplete.
this is what i have to correct

Two years ago, about 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen had been killed by what scientists deemed “sudden aspen decline,” also known as SAD (Nijhuis 26).
I gave you that correction above -- in bold. See it?
so the corrections for this sentence

Two years ago, about 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen had been killed by what scientists deemed “sudden aspen decline,” also known as SAD (Nijhuis 26).

is this " By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name – 'sudden aspen decline,' or SAD "(Nijhuis 26).
Almost right. You're having a problem with spaces -- the spaces you create (or not) with the spacebar.

No space between " and B
No space between D and "
Space needed between " and (
" By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name – 'sudden aspen decline,' or SAD " (Nijhuis 26).
I'm still seeing spaces after and before the " marks. It should be like this:

"By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name – 'sudden aspen decline,' or SAD" (Nijhuis 26).
Thats how I had it in the Microsoft word but when i copied paste i forgot to double check it.

Thank you so much for all your help :)
one more thing i was wondering is this citation for the source correct

Nijhuis,Michelle. What’s Killing the Aspen?Smithsonian.Dec. 2008, vol. 39, no. 9. pp. 26-27.
Spacing is off!! Also, the names of magazines/books/movies need to be in italics; the names of magazine articles need to be in quotation marks. Plus other things.

Nijhuis, Michelle. "What’s Killing the Aspen?" Smithsonian. Dec. 2008: 26-27.

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If you need to follow APA instead of MLA, use the information and examples here:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/