Resources for Writers: Synthesis
I am hoping this will be helpful to my Temple students who used your analysis skills rather than your synthesis skills in our 2nd paper.
GOOD SYNTHESIS…
(1) It accurately reports information from the sources using different phrases and sentences;
(2) It is organized in such a way that readers can immediately see where the information from the sources overlap;.
(3) It makes sense of the sources and helps the reader understand them in greater depth.