Laurence is giving a speech calling for changes in his city's waste removal policies. As part of the speech he says:"Professor Cavanaugh at Local University's business school conducted a study that compared our city's waste removal policies with that of other nearby cities. Her results were published on the university's website last week. She found that cities that used a bi-weekly trash pick-up schedule spent 40 percent less per resident than our city does."This verbal footnote

A. provides an appropriate amount of detail about Laurence's source if he supplied a full citation earlier in his speech.
B. provides an excessive amount of detail about Laurence's source that may bore or confuse his audience.
C. is inadequate because it does not provide sufficient detail about Laurence's source.
D. provides an appropriate amount of detail about Laurence's source if this is the first time that source was mentioned in his speech.

Answer: D

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