Synthesize Essential Information Found in Various Sources

• Synthesis


  Beyond summarizing ideas from various sources. One must analyze and combine his/her generalization and conclusion to the analysis.
• Synthesis

  1. Sequence

  2. Yielding

  3. New Information

  4. Transfer

  5. History

  6. Elaborate

  7. Summarize

  8. Interpretation

  9. Suggestion
• Synthesis vs Summarizing

  Synthesis involves combining multiple sources and ideas, while summarizing involves combining multiple sources/information
• Types of Synthesis


  • New Understanding
  • Deeper Understanding
  • Change Understanding
• REST method


  1. Read

  2. Edit

  3. Synthesizing

  4. Think
• ADD method


  1. What students already know about the topic

  2. What the students learned during reading on the same topic

  3. What students learned during the discussion about the topic
• Venn diagram
• Synthesis


  Combining multiple sources and ideas to form a whole
• Synthesis


  • Goes beyond summarizing ideas from various sources
  • Involves analyzing and combining generalizations and conclusions
• Summarizing


  Sharing the key points from an individual source and then moving on to summarize another source
• Summary


  Leads to synthesis
• Formula for synthesis


  Source 1 + Source 2 + Personal Idea/Observation = Synthesized Idea
• Three types of synthesis

  • A new understanding
  • A deeper understanding
  • A changed understanding
• The REST method


  1. Read two different sources and record ideas

  2. Edit notes and combine similar concepts

  3. Synthesize by combining notes with what you already know

  4. Think about new ideas and connect them to what you already know
• The ADD method


  1. What the students already know about the topic

  2. What the student learned during the reading

  3. What the student learned during the discussion
• Venn diagram


  • Record facts about two topics in large outer circles
  • Record overlapping facts and ideas where the circles overlap