Synthesis+Essay


 * What is a Synthesis Essay:**
 * "A synthesis is a written discussion that draws on one or more sources. It follows that your ability to write syntheses depends on your ability to infer relationships among sources - essays, articles, fiction, and also nonwritten sources, such as lectures, interviews, observations. This process is nothing new for you, since you infer relationships all the time - say, between something you've read in the newspaper and something you've seen for yourself, or between the teaching styles of your favorite and least favorite instructors. In fact, if you've written research papers, you've already written syntheses. In an academic synthesis, you make explicit the relationships that you have inferred among separate sources." (according to www.msu.edu)


 * 'The main purpose of a synthesis essay is to make insightful connections. Those connections can show the relationship(s) between parts of a work or even betweed two or more works. It is your job to explain why those relationships are important. In order to write a successful synthesis essay, you must gather research on your chosen topic, discover meaningful connections throughout your research, and develop a unique and interesting argument or perspective."(according bellevuecollege.edu).
 * "A synthesis essay brings together your own ideas with the ideas of other writers, your source; the combining of seperate elementsor substances to form a coherent whole" (according to powerpoint provided ) [[file:THE_SYNTHESIS_ESSAY.ppt]]

__**Helpful Links: **__
 * 1) Preparing for the Synthesis Question: Six Moves Toward Success
 * 2) Synthesis Essay Materials
 * 3) Synthesis and the DBQ <--For those of you who have taken the AP World History Exam, this article compares the two responses (DBQ and Synthesis)

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