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. :)