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Week 2 Assignment
Cody McCormick (Hockey Player)

Week 2 Assignment

Question 1: Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

Answer: The article is written in a manner where there is no opinionated information. Therefore, the biography contains no bias. No body wrote anything on what they feel about McCormick, the entire article is neutral.

Question 2: Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

Answer: The information presented based on his personal life was very vague. There is not much information on his personal life, such as where he grew up. Some good information that could be added would be where he played hockey. (high school team, travel team)

Question 3: Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?

Answer: The links are all usable. There are no paraphrasing and plagiarizing, everything seems to be written in the editor's on words. Also, each reference are reliable and appropriate. None of the information were retrieved from bias and non neutral websites.

Playing Career
Ontario Hockey League

McCormick was selected 37th overall by the Belleville Bulls junior hockey team, of the OHL. He played as a left winger for the Belleville, Ontario based team for all four years of his junior career, from 1990-2000 to 2002-2003. During McCormick's four year stint as a Bull, he accumulated a total of 56 goals, where 36 of them came from his 2002-2003 season.

Personal Life
McCormick is married with two daughters and resides in Buffalo, New York during the off-season. His wife is Alyssa Paiement, the daughter of former NHLer Wilf Paiement. McCormick is from Chippewa of the Thames First Nation, located in Southwestern, Ontario, near London, Ontario. The Thames First Nations can also be referred to as Anishinaabeg, meaning the original people. They are from the territory of Deshkaan Ziibing. McCormick's ancestors originally arrived from north-eastern region of North America, where they then settled in the area of the Great Lakes.