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Purpose
Your purpose for this paper is to synthesize research on your issue for
an audience unfamiliar with the issue and your sources (primarily our
class members). You will help this audience understand the
conversation taking place on your issue and become aware of the key
evidence that supports the various positions you have identified in the
conversation. A reader of your synthesis should gain some good
background on the issue, a sense of its timeliness and complexity, and
a sense of the variety of views you have researched, as well as the
position you take (your "I say") and your reasons for doing so.
Read pp. 192-95 (The Literature Review) to help you have a sense of
what a synthesis is and the moves it uses.
Content and Structure
Introduction.
For your introduction you can focus on creating a sense of kairos, the
timeliness of your issue, by providing context, or you may use one of
the they say methods as presented in They Say, I Say, Chapter 1.
This intro may borrow heavily from the intro to your annotated
bibliography.
Body.
A synthesis does the following:
pulls from many sources to create a sense of the key
ideas/positions as opposed to presenting separate summaries;
Format: MLA
Length: 5 full pages