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TipsforWri*ngaSynthesisHeatherMcWhinney,2017
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Synthesizing
o Synthesizingiskeytoagoodpaper.Asynthesisiden*fiesandinterpretsthemes,trendsandrela*onships.
o Asynthesisrevealssimilari*esanddifferencesandshowshowtheliteraturesupportsyourthesis.
o Yourpaper’sparagraphsshouldbeginwithatopicsentencethatmakesageneralpointorclaim.
o Thebodyoftheparagraphshouldsynthesizeevidencefromyoursourcestosupportyourtopicsentence.
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TheSiloApproach
o Whenwri*ngaboutsources,studentsoDenusea“siloapproach”ratherthanasynthesis.
o Theywritetheirfirstparagraphaboutonesource,theirsecondparagraphaboutanothersource,theirthirdaboutathirdsource,andsoon.
o Thepurposeofapaperistypicallynottoanalyzeeachsourceseparately,buttoshowhowtheevidencefromthesourcesrelatestooneanotherandtoyourownthesis.
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SiloVersusSynthesis
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SiloApproachVersusSynthesisSilo Synthesis
Eachsourceisdiscussedseparately.Comparisonsarenotmadeandrela*onshipsnotdrawn.Eachparagraphbeginswithadifferentauthor’sname.
Nosourceisdiscussedinisola*on.Evidencefromsourcesiscomparedandrela*onshipsdrawn.
Norela*onshipsaredrawnbetweenthestudentwriter’sownsclaimsandtheevidencepresentedintheparagraph.
Thestudent’sownpointorclaimisthefocusoftheparagraph.Thispointorclaimismadeinthetopicsentence.Evidencefromdifferencesourcessupportsthepointorclaim.
Individualsourcesarereferredtoonlyonce.
Individualsourcesmaybereferredtoseveral*mesindifferentpartsofthepaper.