Synthesized Extended Research Paper
For your Extended Research Paper, synthesize information from the following sources.
Ideas to consider as you write focus your ideas:
Consider the following areas and how they impact your social problem:
Write an analytical research paper in which you do the following:
You will
For your Extended Research Paper, synthesize information from the following sources.
- Synthesized data from your Annotated Bibliography and additional research
- Interview - Incorporate info from your official interview and other unofficial interviews if you choose to add those.
- Documentary - Incorporate info from the documentary you watched related to your topic.
- Visual Graph - Incorporate a visual graphic or chart and analyze it's relation to your topic or subtopic. Do not use a photo.
Ideas to consider as you write focus your ideas:
- Consider problems in society, both local and global, big and small. How are those issues being addressed?
- Who is trying to help others, and how?
- What agencies are available for people in their time of need?
- Who is attempting to make the world a little bit better?
- As you read, consider what you might include in your synthesis. Sit back, think, muse a bit, let those brilliant brain cells kick in.
Consider the following areas and how they impact your social problem:
- Political
- Economic
- Social
- Psychological
- Moral
Write an analytical research paper in which you do the following:
- Inform (provide facts and background regarding your topic)
- For your Commentary: analyze, evaluate, interpret, draw conclusions, make comparisons or connections
- Investigate the causes of the issue, the results of the issue, what has worked and not worked in the past to solve the issue, etc.
- Solutions to solve the social problem - What has worked, what hasn't worked, what might work?
You will
- Analyze
- Interpret
- Draw Conclusions
- Make Comparisons
- Make Connections
- Investigate Causes and Results
- Evaluation solutions - What has worked or not worked in the past? What might work to solve the problem?
- Note: When results are not provided, you may evaluate, interpret, and analyze to come to your own conclusions/results. Even if results are provided from your research, you may be able to offer those results and follow up with an analytical slant of your own.
Assignment, Guidelines, Instructions and Handy Tools
Assignment and Guidelines - These guidelines are as long as your essay. Just sayin'.
Strategies for Synthesis - Cool Video - Mary Lourdes Silva (video also on Academic Research Page
Analytical Thesis Statements - These differ from Classical Argument
40 Complex Topics Explained Perfectly by Infographics - Jacqueline Thomas, Infographics Design - Incorporate a visual graph into the essay and discuss the relationship of the graph to your topic or subtopic.
How to Take Notes Video - MrButtEnglish
How to Take Notes, Skiadas Version - Simplified version of how to take notes on note cards or electronically in Google Slides
Common Errors in Past Synthesis Essays
Assignment and Guidelines - These guidelines are as long as your essay. Just sayin'.
Strategies for Synthesis - Cool Video - Mary Lourdes Silva (video also on Academic Research Page
Analytical Thesis Statements - These differ from Classical Argument
40 Complex Topics Explained Perfectly by Infographics - Jacqueline Thomas, Infographics Design - Incorporate a visual graph into the essay and discuss the relationship of the graph to your topic or subtopic.
How to Take Notes Video - MrButtEnglish
How to Take Notes, Skiadas Version - Simplified version of how to take notes on note cards or electronically in Google Slides
Common Errors in Past Synthesis Essays