ABC 123 Version X 1 Organizing Ideas Worksheet ENG 10 470638

ABC/123 Version X 1 Organizing Ideas Worksheet ENG/100 Version University of Phoenix Material Organizing Ideas Worksheet

As part of an academic writing process, it is important to use scholarly articles to support your own thoughts about a topic. When you use those sources in your writing, you must record specific information about the articles you use in your topic discussion. Recording this information ensures you are prepared to give credit to the authors of those articles. This week, you use the University Library to find two scholarly articles related to the broad topic, narrowed idea, and research question you selected in Week 1. In the academic databases available in our online library, the source information for articles is provided in the indexing details located toward the bottom of the article.

Review the below example of indexing details. The six pieces of source information for your articles you will need to record for this assignment (title, author, publication title, publication date, document URL or DOI, and database) are numbered and boxed in red. Eventually, you will need to record the issue number and/or volume number as well as the page numbers the on which the articles appear to complete the reference page citations in your essay. Search for at least two articles in the University Library that are relevant to your topic. Once you have decided on the articles you want to use for your essay, locate the indexing details.

Complete the following template using the indexing details for the two articles you selected. Include a 3- or 4-sentence description of how each article relates to your topic and research question.

Paper For Above instruction

Article #1:

  • Author(s) names: [Insert author names]
  • Article title: [Insert article title]
  • Date written or published: [Insert publication date]
  • Journal or publication title: [Insert journal name]
  • Issue number and/or volume number (if provided): [Insert issue/volume]
  • Database name: [Insert database]
  • URL (web address) or doi number: [Insert URL or DOI]

Description of relevance: [Provide 3- or 4-sentence explanation of how this article relates to your topic and research question]

Article #2:

  • Author(s) names: [Insert author names]
  • Article title: [Insert article title]
  • Date written or published: [Insert publication date]
  • Journal or publication title: [Insert journal name]
  • Issue number and/or volume number (if provided): [Insert issue/volume]
  • Database name: [Insert database]
  • URL (web address) or doi number: [Insert URL or DOI]

Description of relevance: [Provide 3- or 4-sentence explanation of how this article relates to your topic and research question]

Research question responses

Use the research question you selected in Week 1 to identify three related perspectives from the articles that you identified in Step 1 of this worksheet. These perspectives should meaningfully respond to the research question you selected.

Research Question: [Insert your research question]

Three responses to your research question:

  1. [Response 1]
  2. [Response 2]
  3. [Response 3]

Thesis Statement

Now that you have selected a research question, located relevant scholarly information, and identified responses to the research question, you are ready to create a thesis statement. A thesis statement incorporates the responses to the research question, and it can be seen as the ‘forecast’ of the main ideas that will be presented in the essay.

Example: Video games help young players develop academic, thinking, and social skills.

Your thesis statement: [Write your thesis statement here based on your responses]

Topic sentences

The thesis statement is a ‘forecast’ of the main ideas in the essay. Topic sentences at the beginning of each body paragraph introduce the main idea discussed in that paragraph and incorporate the responses to the research question.

Develop three topic sentences based on your responses to the research question and your thesis statement.

  1. [Topic sentence 1]
  2. [Topic sentence 2]
  3. [Topic sentence 3]

In Week 3, you will use these topic sentences to develop body paragraphs with supporting details for each main idea.

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