Synthesis, Synthesis Why Do I Care?
We synthesize all the time. When you have a conversation with a friend about something your other friends have said about that certain someone, that's a synthesis. When you are given an assignment that asks you to use "at least one quote" to support your opinion, that's a synthesis. When you go on RateMyProfessor to find reviews of a specific professor in order to decide whether to take his or her class, that's a synthesis. When you read or watch the news, surf the internet, or your favorite video channel, and then form a new opinion, that's a synthesis. Every one of the posts on this blog are a synthesis. I'm not reinventing the wheel here, I just look for articles that might interest college students, or help them understand a concept better, and then add my own "two cents", as my father would say. But let's take a closer look at the definition of an academic synthesis from Drew University : "Although at its most basi