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How to synthesis academic sources

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to our newsletter. Here is our next new lesson creation for academic writing skills - 'synthesis'. This is such an important area of academic writing and warrants considerable classroom time to help students develop their understanding of it.
  • Synthesis is a key feature of analytical academic writing.
  • It is the skill of being able to combine a number of sources in a clause, paragraph or text to either support an argument or refute it.
  • We also synthesise sources to be able to compare and contrast ideas and to further expand on a point.
  • It is important that the writer shows the reader that they have researched the subject matter extensively in order to not only demonstrate how a variety of sources can agree or disagree but also to present more balanced arguments.

Our synthesis lesson

This lesson is designed to support students in their understanding and use of synthesising sources. It includes noticing the use of sources in context, a language focus with examples, two guided writing practice activities, a freer practice paragraph writing task with model answer and teacher’s notes. See worksheet example
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Newsletter #84
Synthesis
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