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Definition of Synthesizing
Synthesising is an important and complex skill required in academic writing.
Synthesising involves combining ideas from a range of sources in order to group and
present common ideas or arguments. It is a necessary skill used in essays, literature
reviews and other forms of academic writing. Unlike summarising and paraphrasing,
which only uses one author's ideas at a time, synthesising combines ideas from more than
one text or source.
Synthesising allows you to:
 combine information and ideas from multiple sources to develop and strengthen
your argument(s)
 demonstrate that you have read widely on the topic
 use and cite multiple sources.

Synthesizing requires effort to pull together background knowledge, newly

learned ideas, connections, inferences, and summaries into a complete and original
understanding of a text. Synthesizing means that you read information from many sources
relating to a particular topic, question or assertion. You extract appropiate pieces of
information from each sources, information that relate the insight in some way
(supporting it, negating it, offering additional detail). You react to those pieces of
information and relate them to your insight, to create something new your own reasoned
argument.

To synthesize means to start with different, unrelated parts, search out

relationships, and put the parts together to make a new whole. Reading and writing to
synthesize means that a person reads information from many sources relating to a
particular topic or question. The next step is to synthesize information, or extract
information from each source that relates to the topic by supporting it, negating it, or
offering additional detail. The following step requires processing the information by
reacting to those pieces of information and sources and relating them to the topic or the
main argument (thesis) to create something new. It is important to note that as the writer
reads to synthesize, they are simultaneously searching for relationships and connections
among the ideas.

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