Scholarly writing requires the use of synthesis. Scholars take writhing beyond the analysis level to the level where synthesis is evident; they add their ideas, interpretations, and voices to existing sources of information and take it further (Efron & David, 2018).
Summarizing requires an understanding of the material and identification of the major themes. No new information is being added to the information; it’s just being summed up. Although summarizing is necessary for the process of synthesis, synthesis goes beyond summarizing into the addition of information like interpretations or new conclusions (Efron & Ravid, 2018).
Approach this in a step-by-step manner, starting with a summary of each source. The next step is to look for patterns and themes within each summary. After noting those, compare and contrast those patterns and themes between all sources. Find the relationships between the sources (Efron & Ravid, 2018).
Synthesis occurs at the paragraph level when writers connect individual pieces of evidence from multiple sources to support a paragraph’s main idea and advance a paper’s thesis statement. Your paragraph includes a main idea, evidence from multiple sources, and the analysis of those multiple sources together.
Use strong verbs to integrate sources:
