Week 7 Homework

Pages 537-538 Questions:

 How do the ideas and information in your sources address your research question? What

answers do they give? What information do you find the most relevant, useful, and

persuasive?

 How do they support your tentative thesis? Do they suggest reasons or ways that you

should expand, qualify, or otherwise revise it?

 What viewpoints in your sources do you most agree with? Disagree with? Why?

 What conclusions can you draw from the ideas and information you’ve learned from your

sources? What discoveries have you made in studying these sources, and what new ideas

have they led you to?

 Has your research changed your own views on your topic? Do any of your sources raise

questions that you can pursue further?

 Have you encountered any ideas that you would like to build on-or challenge?

 From everything you’ve read, what is the significance of the topic you’re researching?

Who cares, and why does it matter?

Synthesis Questions:

1. What is synthesis? Synthesis is combining different sources or ideas together and

creating new ideas with your own analysis.

2. How are summarizing and synthesis different? While summarizing you minimize the

information provided to what is considered most important, but while synthesizing,

you combine all that information and provide your own point.
3. What should you do to create a successful synthesis? Thoroughly analyze the

information found in different sources and use them smartly to your own benefit.