Communication Session 10: Synthesizing Your Research Notes
Session_10: The MLA Academic Essay -Synthesizing Research
Summary: First, you shared your research with your pair. Then, there was a discussion about making helpful research questions and categorizing notes for your upcoming presentation. Then, I shared the synthesis of your notes.
Afterward, you learned about strategies for synthesizing your notes by finalizing your structure map as a template and outline for your upcoming MLA-formatted presentation. Finally, you shared your research and gave feedback, and your pair asked questions and provided useful comments.
Note: So many of you are doing the homework incorrectly that I worry that you are not understanding what I am communicating. Is everything alright?
“Research is something that everyone can do, and everyone ought to do. It is simply collecting information and thinking systematically about it.”-Raewyn Connell
Documents and Links:
Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9th Edition
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Homework due at 1:00 p.m. a day before Communication Session_11 by uploading your Synthesized Notes in your shared online document:
1. Please write your four or five questions related to your topic that you are researching and categorize your notes on AT LEAST 5 articles on three pages in your shared online document, as shown in the sample images and the downloadable “Synthesizing Your Issue on 4 A4 Papers” PowerPoint below.
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. Note the paragraph numbers and pages, especially your 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. Please take photos and place them in your Google Document under the Synthesized Notes section.
3. Please include your Works Cited in the document in MLA style on the fourth page and insert the corrected, clean copy of your Works Cited in alphabetical order in your shared online document at the end of your Synthesized Notes section. 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 Works Cited citations, so refer to the edited format provided and use that content.
Note: Your Works Cited section should be in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name or the organization if there is no author. You can make them single- or double-spaced for your presentation.