Warm up activity

Synthesis is a combination of different ideas to form a new whole.

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A synthesis of a research paper is about concisely summarizing and linking different sources to get the idea of the literature review.

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Synthesizing the collection of sources gathered in the research paper is not essential in conducting research

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Synthesis and analysis usually go together when you are synthesizing your Review of Related Literature

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Synthesis determines the question, “Which sources overlap or share the same opinion/findings?”

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A synthesis answers the question, “Have the researcher found any common traits or themes in the research literature?”

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. Synthesizing Review of Related Literature should not just tell us what the research tells us but should also identify what the research does not tell us.

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Synthesis draws conclusion about the findings in the literature so that you can identify how the literature addresses your research question

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In the process of synthesizing the literature review of the researcher, “the new whole” are the findings that the researcher gathered and read.

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The conclusion that the researcher draw from the gathered findings of the researcher is called the “new whole”

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