ENGL 1302 BEAM Worksheet
Instructions: Use this chart to help you map what information each of your peer reviewed journal articles provides you with in support of your
position . Make sure to include proper citations with specific information that you quote or paraphrase from your sources in each category row.
Article Citation
Patterns:
Last Name
Last Name and Last Name
Last Name, et al.
Perdomo et al
Background
What materials / sources
provide relevant
background information /
facts for your paper? List
those materials and provide
quoted evidence as
examples next to those
materials:
“Overpopulation and
abandonment of pets are
long-standing and
burgeoning concerns that
involve uncontrolled
breeding and selling, illegal
trafficking, overpopulation,
and pet safety and
well-being issues”
(Perdomo et al. 1).
- Provides
background on why
adoption is a topic
that needs to be
considered.
Exhibits
What materials provide
specific examples / data to
be interpreted for use in
your paper? List those
materials and provide
quoted evidence as
examples next to those
materials:
Arguments
What sources / which
scholars provide researched
conclusions / reasons /
evidence for use in your
paper? Which sources help
set up important debates /
counter points that you
need to address in your
paper? List those sources
and provide quoted
evidence as examples next
to those references:
“Historical and current
overpopulation and
abandonment prevention
systems have been unable
to solve these problems”
(Perdomo et al. 6)
- Provides a
statement that may
cause others to
argue that
prevention systems
have already solved
the issues that come
with adoption.
Method / Theory
What materials / sources
provide methods of
research to ground your
argument or provide a
theoretical lens for your
analysis / reasoning in your
paper? List those materials
and provide quoted
evidence as examples next
to those materials:
“Overpopulation and
abandonment of pets
worldwide generate
multimillion-dollar costs
that are commonly met by
governmental and
nongovernmental sectors
rather than by the private
owners responsible for
their release” (Perdomo et
al. 3)
- This statement
proves that negative
effects are ongoing
problems that
negatively affect
society and shows
that prevention
systems are lacking.
Kay et al “result in hundreds of Uses data such as sex, age,
healthy, adoptable breed, coat color, source,
companion animals being surrender reason,
euthanized each year due to population in shelter, and
lack of available space, outcome of return. (Kay et
financial issues, and a lack al. 379)
of resources” (Kay et al.
375)
- Background info
shows the reason
why hundreds of
animals are victims
of unnecessary
euthanasia.
O’Connor et al. Interviews with potential The selection of
adopters that help gain a participants might have
deeper understanding of an caused a bias in the data
adopters expectations since staff introduced
(O’Connor et al. 362). participants to the study
(O’Connot et al. 380)
Powell et al “3.2 million animals are Data was collected based
(characterizing) adopted from animal on owner reports.
shelters in the US each - Limitation to study
year” (Powell et al. 1) since owners may
- Shows that the pet not always be
market is a vast completely honest.
industry. (Powell et al. 9)
Dinwoodie et al. “most people acquire pet
dogs from various
distribution channels
including commercial and
backyard breeders, pet
stores, rescues, and shelters
where dogs may be
selected” (Dinwoodie et al.
1)
- Provides
background on the
 various types of
methods people can
acquire animals.
Thompson and Young “strategies described here
are small but important
element in the larger
project of relieving
suffering and reducing the
increasing population of
at-risk companion animals”
(Thompson and Young
349)
- Some may argue
that their strategies
of “cooling out the
mark on animal
adoption” do not
have any effects on
the process of
adopting and
animal population.
 Works Cited

Galus, Weronika, et al. “Vitamin D Supplementation Practices among Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Professionals.” Journal of Clinical Medicine,
vol. 11, 2022, pp. 7278-7289. Academic Search Complete, https://doi.org/10.3390/ jcm11247278.