1. A color Coded Research paper
For the perfect blend of You and Your Sources!

2. Before you do anything else…
CORRECT everything I marked on the sentence outline, and apply those corrections to the rest of your paper.

3. Intro & Conclusion
There shall be no color for these; you will simply combine these into paragraphs.

4. All topic sentences will be red.
Red Sentences
All topic sentences will be red.

5. All of your quotes are mellow yellow!
Yellow Sentences
All of your quotes are mellow yellow!

6. Purple Sentences
All paraphrased entries are The Color Purple. (This is also the title of a terrific movie.)

7. You will need both between each entry of your sentence outline.
Green Sentences
These sentences allow you to:
Provide ample explanation, discussion, and expansion of each idea from your paraphrases and quotes.
Use transitional words to connect your paraphrases and quotes.
You will need both between each entry of your sentence outline.

8. Don’t repeat
The green sentences should not repeat the prior sentence. They should add more specific details.

9. For Instance:
Traffic accidents that occur because of cell phone distractions have greatly increased as more people use cell phones. It is a common occurrence to now see drivers texting on their phones and trying to maneuver through traffic at the same time. To illustrate, Nick Bunkley, author of the article, “Drivers on Cell Phones Kill Thousands, Snarl Traffic,” states that sixteen percent of the crashes and deaths were caused because the drivers were distracted (32).
**Notice how lengthy and in-depth this sentence is.

10. A green sentence does not
Reintroduce or comment about the author. Your signal phrase already does that.
For instance, don’t do this:
- Ms. Porter is going to describe how students should exercise.
Serve as an opportunity for you to explain your previous sentence by giving examples, providing more details or more discussion.
A green sentence does

11. Do not underestimate the importance of transitions
Your words create a logical flow from one entry to the next.
Meanwhile,
Afterward,
In the same way,
In conclusion,
For instance,
Use these either before or after each green sentence…..or both. These will always be in green.

12. I’m going to connect it to a quote! Notice the transition phrases?
Physical activity provides great benefits for students in schools. School days tend to be long and sometimes boring for students, resulting in a lack of energy both physically and mentally. For example, Sarah Porter, in her book, Let’s Get Physical describes how students lack of physical activities results in poor academic performance (24). Seven hours of sitting, writing, and thinking makes students physically weary. Additionally, Ms. Porter describes the attitude of one of her students, “I sit and think and sit and write and fall mentally asleep. If I could just get up and do a lap around the school, I know I could wake my mind up again” (26). In other words, students simply need to be able to move in order to think better.

13. Blue Sentences
At the end of each subtopic, you will analyze the evidence you presented, explaining why it PROVES your thesis statement. It can be as short as one sentence or as long as a paragraph. It’s not a summary of your evidence, it answers the “so-what” question.

14. Here is how I ended that subtopic
Let’s examine the last subtopic and talk about how we could describe how this PROVES the thesis:
Physical exercise is important to growing children and teens because it positively affects every area of their lives.
First sub-topic sentence:
Physical activity provides great benefits for students in schools

15. Physical activity provides great benefits for students in schools
Physical activity provides great benefits for students in schools. School days tend to be long and sometimes boring for students, resulting in a lack of energy both physically and mentally. For example, Sarah Porter, in her book, Let’s Get Physical describes how students lack of physical activities results in poor academic performance (24). Seven hours of sitting, writing, and thinking makes students physically weary.
Additionally, Ms. Porter describes the attitude of one of her students, “I sit and think and sit and write and fall mentally asleep. If I could just get up and do a lap around the school, I know I could wake my mind up again” (26). In other words, students simply need to move and think together. Test scores and statistics prove that students who are given an opportunity to stretch, both their minds and their bodies during a school day, perform better in all areas of academics. With this proven data, why would any school want to limit its physical education program?

16. Let’s try a blue section with your stuff.
Read your Thesis Statement
Read your first sub-topic sentence
Read your newly added green sentence
Read all your evidence.
Reread your thesis statement.
HERE’S THE QUESTION!!!!
“This is important because…”
How does all that evidence prove your thesis? (For instance, “These statistics prove that…..” or “This evidence suggests that….”

17. How well will you tell your story?!?
You are the lawyer that links all the evidence together (green explanation sentences). Your quotes and paraphrases are your witnesses (yellow & purple), and your blue analysis sentences are your final summation.

18. Quick note…..
Some of your sentence outlines list entry after entry of the same author.
Feel free to combine some of that information without repeating their names (or article titles) over and over again to avoid repetition and tedious wording.
Some of your purple sentences may bump up to another purple sentence. Make sure to separate them with green.
Be attentive to your writing styles.
Avoid…
YOUUUUUUUUU (and first person)
Conversational and informal phrases and SLANG. Dang that slang. It just slays me!!

19. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. . .
Please use the rubric and examples to guide your work. . .this is how I will grade your work!

20. You are now ready to write your “professional” article of research.
. On your mark…. Get Set… Go Write your 5-7 (FULL) page research paper…It is Time!
You are now ready to write your “professional” article of research.