Summary: In the class and also in research pairs, you focused on discussing your most current homework, but you also spoke and reflected on your past work on your issue, including the basics, historical information, data, the causes, effects, and possible solutions, or at least some relief to the situation. Afterward, you learned about strategies to synthesize your notes in one place as a template or an outline for your upcoming presentation. Synthesized notes are also known as a structure map in Alex videos or a graphic organizer.

“A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn’t have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.”~Evan Parker

Class_09_Synthesizing-Your-Issue-Structure Map-on- your Google Doc

Homework is due on Sunday at midnight, the day before Class 10:

1. Please write your four or five questions related to your topic that you are researching and categorize your notes on six articles on three A4 papers as shown in the sample images and the downloadable “Synthesizing Your Issue on Your Google Doc” PowerPoint above.

2. Then, use your research questions to categorize your notes into four or five sections in three pages of notes. The research questions become your paragraph topic thesis statements in your paper. Each section should have at least two citations and note the paragraph numbers and pages, especially for our quoted material, so you can remember where you got the information from to make the paper easier to write with the necessary in-text citations.

2. Please include your references in the document in APA style on the fourth page, and type them at the end of your current working Google Document you are using with your notes. Please provide the details of the author’s name, date published, the title, pages (if needed), and the publisher (or organization). We have already formatted many of your references in your photo notes in the A4 Word Google document, so please refer to the provided edited format and use that content.

Note: Your reference section should be in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name or the organization if there is no author.