Practice 7.3: Find a scholarly article in your field from a different publication than you have looked at previously. Working paragraph by paragraph (and sentence by sentence if necessary), write an outline of the article.  *If you are uncertain how to do an outline, please refer to the example given on page 2 of this document.

Practice 7.4: Look again at the article you just outlined. Mark all the transitions in the article, and then try to decide which sort of transition each is.

Finally, explain how, if at all, this source will fit into your upcoming research paper. How does this source influence your overall thesis statement? How might you use this source as part of your own argument as you transition from idea to idea in your own upcoming research paper?

Overview: For this worksheet, create a single document of two or three pages. Include a reference page and a title page using the style you will use for your research paper. Include a section for your article outline (Practice 7.3), a section for your analysis of the article’s transitions (Practice 7.4), and finally an explanation about how you will use this article in your upcoming research paper.