Have you ever noticed that freelancers are like politicians, at least in one way: if they don't know the answer to the question, they'll just answer one they do know – or in some cases, a different one they don't know... In the case of eHow.com's Bryan C. Booth, it appears to be the latter as he addresses the question, "What Type of Rock Does Slate Change Into?"¹
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For those of you who haven't ever taken the course "Rocks for Jocks" (also known in your college's official catalog as Physical Geology G101), the answer some fifth-grader was surfing the internet to find is either "slate" or "schist." That's basically all you need to know, but Bryan was forced to expand his answer to eHow's 300-word minimum, which meant he needed padding. Padding is what he supplied, though not necessarily factual. For instance:
