A synthesis paper looks at the differences and similarities involving two or more summaries that discuss a specific topic. It requires a person to analyze documents and form thoughts and ideas on what they have read. Then the person can make comparisons to the topic being studied and form some kind of thesis. Drawing together themes and organizing ones thoughts helps form the synthesis paper.
Before starting to write the synthesis paper one should organize their thoughts about their topic. They can do this by taking notes, prewriting, clustering, and listing their ideas. This will help to organize their paper and make it flow better over-all. It will also help them discover what themes are important to the paper and which ones are not as important.
In the introduction the writer should have one or two sentences where they sum up what the focus of the synthesis paper will be. It should also introduce what documents were focused on and being compared.
The body of the paper should organize the themes, thoughts, and main points of the topic of the paper. It should show the patterns found and inform the reader the about the main similarities or differences that are being closely connected or tied together throughout the paper. It should be informative and represent each document fairly.
The paper should also have a good conclusion. The conclusion should summarize and emphasize what the paper’s key points were. The reader should have a clear understanding of what the main themes of the paper were and how everything connected and flowed together.
My main topic for my synthesis paper dealt with health. I linked together ideas from the two documents I was given and discussed various ways in which health has changed from Kellogg’s generation to today’s generation. I thought it was interesting to talk about the similarities and differences that have formed over the years involving a person’s everyday diet and lifestyle.
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