Describe the overall organizational pattern in each article. How are these patterns different?

Step 1: Conduct research and read a few paragraphs of each of your articles
Using a search engine, identify three academic or medical journal articles on the subject of marriage, with each article categorized as falling under either the conventions of the humanities, the social sciences, and the applied or natural sciences (find one article in each discipline).
Step 2: Answer each of the following questions in your paper
Besides the clues in the academic or medical journal titles, how can you tell which article belongs to the humanities disciplines? to social sciences? to applied or natural sciences?
Describe the overall organizational pattern in each article. How are these patterns different?
Select one article to study more closely. What can you learn from it as a writer? That is, what strategies can you borrow in your own writing?
How does the purpose for writing change across the disciplines?
What are the differences in citation style, language, and format?
Step 3: Edit
After you finish your draft, leave it alone for at least a few hours and preferably a full day. Copy and paste a third version of the draft and “Works Cited” in the same computer file; in this copy of your draft, make changes that improve:
sentence construction (correct errors related to nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, phrases, and clauses)
word choice (tone, correct words, homophones [their/there/they’re, two/too/to, etc.], etc.)
punctuation use (commas, end marks, colons, semicolons)
mechanics (spelling, abbreviations, italics, capitalization, incorrect spacing between words or at the beginning/end of sentences, etc.)
Strategies that may be helpful in checking for the problems mentioned above:
Read your paper aloud from the last sentence to the first sentence. That is, read the very last sentence of the paper aloud to make sure the sentence sounds right and has all the right parts and punctuation. Now, read the previous sentence. Keep going backward until you reach the paper’s beginning.
Use the “Find” tool in the word processing program to search for marks of punctuation (like commas) so that you can be sure they are used correctly. You can also search for commonly misspelled words and words that can usually be omitted (there is/are, it is, clichés).
Confirm that you have addressed every bullet point in the assignment instructions.

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