What is Synthesising?

Hello again! This entry is about synthesising lesson. Today lesson how to synthesis the information that we obtained from the references sources, and basically to prepare short research paper of about 1200-1500 words. But, in the final exam, it gives two articles and from that students need to write a synthesis of about 400-500 words on the regarding topics. 

First of all, the definition of synthesising is the combination of information from several texts or sources into a single piece of writing. Krishnakumari, Nor Azni Abdullah, and Ahmad Mazli Muhammad (2010), the synthesis is important to student because they need to write thesis or research paper that includes of facts, details, statistics, ideas, points of view or arguments. In addition, we will need to use paraphrasing skills and summary writing skills to write the information by own words.

There are several steps in preparing  a short research paper. The steps are followed in the text book (Krishnakumari, et al.,2010)

1. Explore topic through concept mapping.
2. Develop thesis statement or main idea statement as the basis for paper.
3. Prepare a draft outline.
4. Review and mark up your reference material.
5. Prepare an integrated outline to synthesis information from reference material.
6. Write the draft paper.
7. Incorporate evidence from reference material into paper.
8. Prepare a list of references.
9. Revise and edit paper.
10. Use a checklist to help finalize the paper for submission.

That's all for synthesising lesson. Thank you for your reading. :)

Summarizing Lesson

 Hello everyone! This entry is all about how to write a good summarizing. Basically, we already learned to summarized article in primary and secondary level. But, for tertiary level we must include proper citation.

So this entry supposed to be published on the last week lecture, but I decided to post this entry with new lesson in the class for today. we learned about how to make a good summary. There was several purpose of summary such as to describe the main point and the important details of the particular essay or journals. The definition of summary is short account of the central ideas or condensation or a shortened version of text.

From my understanding, writing a summary is generally fairly short and makes it more understand to the readers. In addition, a good summary is including all of the important aspects which allow the readers understand what it is about of the particular essay. Besides that, in summarizing of an essay, we should not give the opinions, background knowledge, or any personal information.

There are three ways to make easier summary, firstly, carefully read the whole text. Secondly, identify if there any sentences that may not understand, try to read it again and not being scared with the long essay. Thirdly, after reading the essay, questioning our self what was this text is all about. After that, we can start writing the summary. Other than that, the summary should be in a complete sentence, it cover all the main point and key ideas, and it is important to use own word. The key points are the arguments or information that used to support the main idea. Moreover, the key points are developed with supporting details

Then, for your information, in the Academic Skill class, we also learned summarizing lesson. We did some practices regarding on the summary essay. For example, we practice some nursery rhymes and make the short summary of the rhymes. In order to make it interesting, we all read the rhymes together and discussed the possible answer for each of the nursery rhymes.  I hope that, I am able to write good summary and applied all the steps for making a short and understandable.

Documenting Evidence

Hye readers! As usual on Thursday, we got ELC class. Today we learned about how to document evidence and make it into the proper reference or bibliography in the report. Usually social science students, use APA style for citing articles. This was based on 6th edition of the APA Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.

When we were cite a magazine, journal, or newspaper article that found through database, we must include some key components. According to Krishnakumari, K., Nor Azni Abdullah, and Ahmad Mazli Muhammad (2010), there are several reasons why it is important to document the sources because to let reader know that you have done your homework and you are building from the ideas and research of others. Besides that, to inform the reader where to locate the original document if he or she is interested in it and to avoid plagiarism by giving appropriate credit where it is due (Krishnakumari, K, et al.,2010).

There are some reference forms such as books, a book, periodicals or electronic sources. The basic element that include in text-citation are author, year of publication, book tittle, publication city and the publisher. For example, for books with one author: Clouse, B. F. (2010). A troubleshooting guide for writers:Strategies and process. Kuala Lumpur:   McGraw-Hill

Usually when I am doing my report, I use online in-text citation for make reference. The current website that I used is http://www.bibme.org/. The picture of the website as shown below:

There were difference between bibliography and reference list. A bibliography is a list of all the material that we consulted whereas reference list includes only the sources of the material that we used in the actual writing of the assignment. Besides that, both the bibliography and reference list appear at the end of the research paper. As a conclusion, it is important to do the in text-citation because from that we can show the writer work and to appreciate them in that way. That's all. Thank you for your reading :)