ENGL 1302 Article Analysis Worksheet

Instructions: Use this chart to help you map how each of your peer reviewed journal articles creates and disseminates knowledge about your research
topic to the scholarly community. Make sure to include proper citations with specific information that you quote or paraphrase from your sources in
each category row.

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Article Citation Background Exhibits Arguments Method / Theory

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Last Name
Last Name and Last Name
Last Name, et al.
Granhag, Par Andres, et al.
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are providing background
information / facts in this
article? List those materials
and provide quoted
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"An explanation that has
been proposed in the
literature to account for
stereotypical beliefs about
deception held by, among
others, presumed lie
experts, is that they rarely
receive any reliable
outcome feedback about
the correctness of their
veracity assessments."(30)
"When attempting to detect
deceit in people of other
ethnic origin than
What materials are What sources / which What materials / sources
providing specific scholars are providing are providing methods of
examples / data in this context for the scholarly research to ground the
article? List those materialsconversation / known argument or provide a
and provide quoted researched conclusions / theoretical lens for the
evidence as examples next debates in the field of study analysis / reasoning in this
to those materials: in this article? List those article? List those materials
sources and provide quoted and provide quoted
evidence as examples next evidence as examples next
to those references: to those materials:
"In most empirical studies, "Two different
accuracy rates fall below questionnaires were used,
“Research on deception has 60 per cent (Kraut 1980; one for MB personnel and
shown that people are Vrij 2000)." (30). uses one for students."(35)
generally not very good lie Kraut 1980 and Vrij
detectors. In most "The written answers to the
empirical studies, accuracy "A recent meta-analysis of open-ended questions were
rates fall below 60 per cent cues to deception showed coded for categories by
(Kraut 1980; Vrij 2000).” that liars are among other two independent
(30) things less forthcoming, raters."(35)
more tense, and include
fewer unusual elements in "With the ambition of
"MB personnel indicated their stories (DePaulo et al. collecting about as many
that the verbal content is a 2003)."(30) uses Depaulo student questionnaires as
more reliable indicator there were questionnaires
when judging veracity than filled out by MB personnel,
non-verbal behavior.”(37) "As mentioned above, students were approached
there are culturally during a different data
 themselves, people perform
even worse in terms of lie
detection accuracy than
when judging people of
their own ethnic
origin."(31)
Hasson, Robert G, et al. "Research highlights policy
implications for
unaccompanied children in
international contexts. For
example, Arnold and Ní
Raghallaigh (2017)
document improvements in
policies for unaccompanied
minors in Ireland. Lidén et
al. (2017) discuss tensions
in Norwegian policies, and
Kohli & Mather (2003)
emphasize therapeutic
support for UK's
unaccompanied
children."(275)
"Prior to the current
unprecedented levels of
displacement (UNHCR,
2015), the end of World
War II saw one of the most
dramatic increases in
forced migration in the
history of the world."(276)
Hsin, Amy, and Sofya "The number of
mediated rules governing
the display of non-verbal
behaviour (Ekman and
Friesen 1969; Kupperbusch
et al. 1999)."(31)
"UNHCR found that 58% "GAO found that agents
of unaccompanied children made inconsistent
interviewed in 2014 were screening decisions, had
forcibly displaced due to varying levels of awareness
actual or potential harm, about how they were to
warranting international assess certain screening
protection (UNHCR, criteria, and did not
2014)."(275) consistently document the
rationales for their
"Trauma-informed care is decisions."(278) uses U.S.
defined as a program or Government
policy that realizes the Accountability Office
widespread impact of
trauma and understands
potential paths for "The social work code of
recovery..."(280) ethics calls for actions that
'expand choice and
opportunity for all people,
with special regard for
vulnerable, disadvantaged,
oppressed, and exploited
people and groups'."(280)
Uses National Association
of Social Workers
"Undocumented Chinese "The asylum regime,
collection and asked to fill
out the questionnaire."
Quoted evidence: "All
questionnaires were
completed
anonymously."(35)
“In a 2014 study exploring
the reasons why children
arriving at the U.S./Mexico
border left their country of
origin, UNHCR
interviewed 404 children
and found 41% of the
children claimed to fear or
already experienced
violence in their home
communities due to
organized crime associated
with gangs." (280)
"We draw on the concept
Aptekar. undocumented migrants in
the United States
originating from the
People’s Republic of China
quadrupled between 1990
and 2020."(1195)
"We show that US asylum
policies towards Chinese
nationals reflect a broader
strategy to contain a
geopolitical rival and
defend US
hegemony."(1196)
Lamneck, Claire, et al. "Over the past decade, the
United States has
witnessed a significant
increase in the number of
individuals migrating
across the US-Mexico
border, leading to various
implications for healthcare
services and immigration
law enforcement."(2)
"This study was a cross-
sectional survey conducted
at a Joint Commission
accredited teaching
hospital system in
Arizona."(3)
Luzuriaga, Edison Joselito "Eligibility for asylum and
Naranjo, et al. immigration is a matter of
great significance in the
context of international
migration and human
rights." (328)
migrants face legal
violence including
enormous debt, family
separation, and navigating
co-ethnic migration
industries."(1196)
"Legal fees for Chinese
migrants filing asylum
claims range from $8,000
to over $15,000 per
applicant."(1202)
"Approximately 30% of
respondents did not answer
questions regarding
respectful encounters with
ILE."(5)
"The disrespect was
towards the patient in
custody with over 10% of
those that responded
acknowledging a
disrespectful encounter
between ILE and
patients."(5)
"Through the application of
semi-structured interviews
and the brainstorming
process, a set of relevant
factors in the context of
eligibility for asylum and
ostensibly humanitarian,
inflicts violence on
Chinese migrants and
diverts efforts from
collective organizing
towards debt-fueled
migration and asylum
seeking."(1202)
"All survey questions,
recruitment emails, and
data collection methods
were in accordance with
ethical considerations."(4)
"Significance for p-values
was set at p<0.001 given
the large number of
missing answers for
medical students."(4)
"Decision-making in this
field is of paramount
importance." (327)
"Ultimately, this study
seeks to contribute to the
of legal violence developed
by Menjívar and Abrego
(2012) to illustrate 'the
normalized but cumulative
injurious effects of the law'
on migrants and how the
structural and symbolic
violence embedded in the
laws promotes suffering
and insecurity."(1196)
"The study population was
surveyed using probability
sampling via a
standardized recruitment
email distributed using
appropriate electronic
mailing lists..."(3)
"To address these
difficulties, decision-
making approaches have
been developed to
systematically handle
indeterminacy and

"One of the most
significant challenges in
decision-making regarding
eligibility for asylum and
immigration is the presence
of indeterminacies and
uncertainty in the
evaluation of the
criteria."(327)
Shiff, Talia. "Under current asylum law,
applicants must establish a
‘well-founded fear of
persecution’ in their own
countries and that their
race, religion, nationality,
political opinion or
membership of a particular
social group is at least one
central reason for the
threatened persecution
(Refugee Act of 1980)."
(1802)
"My findings suggest that
to a large extent the
administration’s pretention
to secure an individually
centred screening process
failed: pressures against
use of overly broad asylum
categories, led the agency
to constraint applications
of the PSG category to new
types of harms."(1804)
immigration was
identified." (329)
"These variables represent
key dimensions that
influence the eligibility of
individuals in asylum
applications."(330)
"To a large extent, the
open-endedness of the PSG
category allows for the
individually centred
adjudication process that
the post-Cold War asylum
administration was devised
to guarantee."(1803)
"Supervisors were less
likely to want to ‘push the
envelope on something that
wasn’t a normal claim …
when it wasn’t something
clear cut like political
opinion, race or
religion."(1808)
improvement of decision- uncertainty." (327)
making processes in
asylum and immigration "The proposed study aims
matters, by more to apply neutrosophic logic
effectively addressing the in the context of the
indeterminacies and DEMATEL method to
uncertainties that often evaluate the variables
characterize these involved in the eligibility
decisions."(328) of individuals in asylum
applications and
immigration
processes."(328)
"Since each of the three "Categories which resist
Western African countries normalisation are
display parallel patterns of perceived to be of a
PSG applications, I present disruptive potential."(1805)
data on the region as a
whole. I do the same for
data on PSG applications
in El Salvador, Guatemala,
and Honduras."(1805)
"In the immigration
context, scholars show how
asylum bureaucracies in
the United States and in
Europe are interpreting
potentially ambiguous
legal categories in ways
that generate fixed and
narrow interpretations of
asylum law."(1805)
Tudor, Florin. "As shown by the data
processed from UNHCR,
2011, Asylum Levels and
Trends in Industrialized
Countries, First Half 2011
it is estimated that 198,300
asylum applications were
recorded during the first
six months of 2011 in the
44 countries included in
this report."(211)
"According to UNHCR,
2010, Statistical Yearbook
2009 in 2009, the UK was
the place where the highest
number of asylum seekers
was registered coming
from Afghanistan
according to UNHCR
Statistical Yearbook 2009,
page 97 in UK were
registered 3540 asylum
applications."( 213)
Vaisman-Tzachor, Reuben. "At the core of
American values,
canonized in the
constitution and
amendments that followed,
are the rights of persons
persecuted elsewhere in the
world to find shelter and
"UK registered 3540
asylum applications from
Afghanistan in 2009."
(213)
" Studies have found that
unemployment is three
times higher among
refugees and immigrants
than for native Swedes and
Norwegians, and that
refugees are over-
represented in low
income / low status
occupations.."(214)
"The legal definition of
asylum is a legal protection
from deportation sought by
non-U.S. citizens who
enter the U.S., either
legally or illegally, asking
for refuge based on claims
of persecution or fear of
"Government policies and
statements in the UK on
refugees have been
characterized in recent
years not only by
legitimizing actions aimed
a lot of hostility, but also
led to the creation of a
policy impulse
characterized by other
restrictions, which became
the default option, the
asylum seekers and
refugees being the most
'undesirable' immigrant
groups." (213)
"Given that most physical
signs of harm from
persecution remain
invisible through time, the
psychological scars that
persecution leaves behind
become increasingly
relevant for evidentiary
"For the successful
integration of refugees,
consider it necessary that
they should feel that they
are effectively participating
community life of the
neighborhood, city and
country of residence, as
well as to the life of the
European Union,….”(215)
"The psychological
evaluation of an asylum
applicant is at the core of
the attempt to recreate the
emotional and mental state
of the person at the time in
which he or she was
persecuted, threatened,
 protection in this country."
(1)
"The moral,
sociological, and
psychological
transformation of
American society that
occurred in more than three
hundred years of history
since then was largely
affected by these historical
antecedents."(2)
persecution in their home purposes in legal tortured, or abused in his
country." (2) proceedings."(3) country of origin."(6)
"An example is a husband
and wife who escaped from
Venezuela offered identical
accounts of events leading
up to their escape, thereby
increasing their
credibility."(6)

Beam Schema

 Background – materials deemed factual.

o Intro
o Body Background
 Exhibits – materials that need to be explained/interpreted. Find in body.
o Results: data sets (measure results) – quantitative data
o Survey answers, interviews (quotes) – qualitative data.
o Documents/Texts
 Arguments – materials that describe the scholarly conversation. Find in body.
o What other experts/authorities say about a topic.
 Claims like “I argue”, “This study finds/concludes”.
 Reasoning – how they support their claims.
 Method/ Theory – materials that present a method a theory to follow. Intro or body

RG2: Literature Review

 8 sources: background on the scholarly convo

  Exhibits of the scholarly conversation

RG3: Research Position

 6 sources: background on topic knowledge

 Exhibits (maybe) of data
 Arguments from scholars that support/ challenges your claim

1. Granhag, Par Andres, et al. “Granting Asylum or Not? Migration Board Personnel's Beliefs about Deception.” Journal of Ethnic &

Migration Studies, vol. 31, 2005, pp. 29-50. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1080/1369183042000305672

2. Hasson, Robert G, et al. “Patchwork of promises: A critical analysis of immigration policies for unaccompanied undocumented children

in the United States.” Child & Family Social Work, vol. 24, 2019, pp. 275-282. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1111/cfs.12612

3. Hsin, Amy, and Sofya Aptekar. “The Violence of Asylum: The Case of Undocumented Chinese Migration to the United States.” Social

Forces, vol. 100, pp. 1195-1217. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1093/sf/soab032

4. Lamneck, Claire, et al. “Assessment of immigration law enforcement presence in a teaching hospital along the US/Mexico border.”

International Journal for Equity in Health, vol. 22, 2023, pp. 1-12. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1186/s12939-023-01934-2

5. Luzuriaga, Edison Joselito Naranjo, et al. “Neutrosophic Evaluation of Eligibility Variables in Asylum and Immigration Processes.”

Neutrosophic Sets & Systems, vol. 62, 2023, pp. 327-335. Academic Search Complete.

6. Shiff, Talia. “Regulating organizational ambiguity: unsettled screening categories and the making of US asylum policy.”

Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, vol. 48, 2022, pp. 1802- 1820. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2019.1696669

7. Tudor, Florin. “FINANCIAL SOLIDARITY – A STRUCTURED APPROACH TO THE COMPLEX ISSUE OF THE MIGRATION

PHENOMENON.” Contemporary Readings in Law & Social Justice, vol. 6, 2014, pp. 210-216. Academic Search Complete.

8. Vaisman-Tzachor, Reuben. “PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL FOR ASYLUM APPLICATIONS IN FEDERAL

IMMIGRATION COURTS.” Annals of Psychotherapy & Integrative Health, 2014, pp. 34-51. Academic Search Complete.