How to Write a Synthesis Essay

what the text was saying but then I started to annotate and the passage began to make sense. I found many rhetorical strategies that the author used and I then began to outline the essay in my head. After I was done reading and annotating I began to write my essay, I felt confident in my essay and I thought I would score at least a 4 out of the 9 points that could be achieved. When I finished I turned in my…

classes this semester especially have not been too hard, but are still challenging. One class in particular is English 102, I face many new concepts but each seem to be engaging and easy to work with. All in all, English 102 has been enjoyable, I learned how to research sources, cite sources, and was introduced to many ways to use sources in context with each other. To start off with, I knew that the majority of the course was finding sources and writing research papers, but I was not expecting…

handed back their first paper, only to receive a nightmarish grade. They rack their brain for how this could happen; they had always earned exemplary grades in their high school English class, but they were unprepared for the college standards of writing. Regrettably, too many college freshmen are met with this exact dilemma. Their high school teachers do not show them how to write, but instead what to write, and leave their students completely unaware of what awaits them in college.…

Abolitionist Synthesis Essay Influential anti-slavery writers and simply those who disagreed with slavery often made Biblical or Christian allusions in order to convince and convey the wrongs of slavery. Slavery, which began as a widely accepted and seemingly normal activity was later brought to its end by those who spoke out against it due to the direction of their own moral compasses. By using the Bible and other Christian references in their writings, abolitionists were able to convince…

succeeded in improving in my writing skills so far this year; I better understand how to use sentence length, my claims are stronger than they were previously, and my grade appears to be improving. My OCE essays were completed in multiple drafts. From very rough, to slightly less rough, and then to nearly spotless. Although I will admit that I don’t always use class time because I can’t concentrate well enough to write at school, there are too many sights and sounds. I need a boring environment…

his way onto the Paul Jones in order to travel the Mississippi River (Bethel, 1982). Although, Twain wrote about his life and experiences while growing up in Missouri. At the same time, Brian McCammack wrote how Twain had a “fascination with competence and power.” Not to mention, how Twain admires traits of both powerful and competent characters (McCammick,…

with their teacher may participate more in class and are more likely to ask for help when needed. Science can be messy and students need to feel safe to fail, but more importantly they need to feel safe enough to talk about what is not working and how to fix it. Teachers who create positive relationships with their students promote a positive learning environment inside and outside the classroom where students can work on their metacognitive skills without losing self-esteem. Even students…

Streptococcus Pneumonae Pneumonia /pneumococcal pneumonia My little brother was twice a victim of pneumonia and that has motivated me to write on the most common causing bacteria, Streptococcus pneumonia. Streptococcus pneumonia is an alpha hemolytic gram-positive diplococci bacteria and member of the genus- Streptococcus.2 Streptococcus pneumonia is also a facultative anaerobe meaning that it could grow in an environment with or without oxygen. Being a facultative anaerobe bacteria permits…

It has been said that literary criticism started before Plato, but he is known the bedrock or the womb that birth other literary criticism. It is the foundation of the building called literary theory or criticism. He prescribes what a good literature or poetry should be. Plato’s philosophy of idealism – the existence of two worlds; the ideal world which is perfect and the visible world which is an imitation of the ideal. This idea criticizes art as an imitation of an imitation. And as a result,…

SYNTHESIS #2 – Bacon and Locke It seems as though it is human nature to elevate others into positions of power or influence. Authority always arises within a group and a group always arises because humans are social and must interact with one another to create shared context and thus generate a culture and society. It also seems as though it is human nature to dislike those whose actions are for their own betterment instead of the betterment of humankind as a whole. This impression of what it…