Synthesis Essay: The Writing Process

Writing Argument's promotes fair and objective points of view. It's important to stay within bounds of fairness and avoid bias. The writer can stand their grounds in their argument but, in order for your argument to be credible, it is important to acknowledge others points of view. There’s no apparent strategy to measure your unfair summary, but it can be avoided by following a few guidelines, don’t distort a position or expertise and don’t oversimplify someone’s argument point of view. Other ways to make sure your writing a fair summary is to make sure the support of the argument is not misleading or distorted, the writer should avoid misleading evidence or misrepresent the evidence in the presenting. Avoid quotes out of context to change the meaning of the quotes. Avoid using unfair appeals. Normally, in an argumentative essay there are three types of appeals to your audience (1) logical appeals, appeals to the reasonable side of your audience, (2) emotional appeals,

Throughout today’s society, media contributes to almost everyone’s daily life. From informative news channels to comical television shows, media proves to be effective in advertisement, releasing messages and informing the audience. Although media proves to be wildly effective in advertising, releasing messages and informing the audience, periodically destructive and misleading messages are provided to the audience and directly influencing women. Cultural critics widely agree that media tends to negatively influence women and all the critics point to research which supports the belief that women are portrayed as subordinate to men, having no

This question requires you to integrate a variety of sources into a coherent, well-written essay. Refer to the sources to support your position; avoid mere paraphrase or summary. Your argument should be central; the sources should support this argument.

2) Although facts do not make admirable essay topics, they do provide the needed support for an opinion. If an essay is purely based on personal feelings, nothing is available to prove those emotions. What are needed are strong facts which can show the reader the impartial aspects of the main idea.

She begins the article by discussing the disparity between truth and a fact. Sommers would like students to interpret the material for themselves, ergo seeking out their own truth and facts; rather than compiling arguments from existing sources with no correlation to the material or individual’s argument. She taxes the students with the task of becoming the source and using fact to support their own argument. In fact, Sommers purpose of writing the paper is to explain why an individual uses sources, and to identify ways people can view the sources that they use for their

It has recently been brought to my attention that our school is looking to adopt a sustainable menu into our meal program and I would like to give my viewpoint on the matter. As one many students here at Oxford Academy this change will affect me directly. Although people may at first oppose this conversion I think if we are able to overcome the first obstacles, this change would bring a great positive impact to the environment and the health of our students.

First, the essay is well constructed because Mae explains the issue and opposing positions clearly and in an engaging way. Mae includes quotes from articles and explains them thoroughly to show their relevance to the

"Helping Student Use Textual Source Persuasively" by Maragret Kantz, is a research about the mistakes most of us students make when researching for a paper. "We need a theory-based explanation,one grounded in the findings of the published research on the nature and reasons for our students ' problems with writing persuasive researched papers. To understand how to teach students to write such papers, we also need a better understanding of the demands of synthesis tasks." Like most students like to state the facts given to us by published articles and not finding out the "true" facts of the research. In her research she introduced Shirley. A highly educated sophomore. She comes from an educated family with great reading and writing skills. Shirley wrote a research paper on the Battle of Agincourt. While she did her research and only wrote about the so called fact/truth, she did not receive the academic grade she thought she would since her facts were there. She then presented her concern with her friend Alice. While Shirley defended her sources Alice states "You 're dealing with facts, so there aren 't too many choices. If you want to say something original you either have to talk about the sources or talk about the material..." This would keep Shirley narrative structure of her research paper but also give her an "argument and purpose". There are three causes Kantz states "1) Many students like Shirley misunderstand sources because they read them as stories. 2) Many students

Directions: After developing an outline to organize your reasons and evidence, construct your essay below. Don’t forget to explain how your evidence supports your reasoning, and not just explain what the quote means.

Taking English 1302 with Texas Tech University has been a highly rewarding experience. This class focuses on literature reviews and researched arguments, but when I signed up for this class I did not know the difference between the two. Now I know that literature reviews use sources to inform the reader about current studies on a topic, while researched arguments use sources to support the author’s claim and persuade the reader. During this class I have learned how to write a literature review/ researched argument as well as many mechanics related to general writing.

Use the Toulmin model to structure your response. You may use one or two outside sources as evidence for your dissoi logoi argument, but try to rely mostly on the essay. Use a They Say, I Say approach.

(Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2012). The best way in choosing an argument is finding a topic that can make a good statement or debate. Gathering enough evidence to prove your topic, can have the audience agree with the focus. College students will tend to write on arguments that they are very interested in or something that they can relate too. There two main helpful ideas when choosing evidence and research. First hand research is research that has been established by doing interviews, experiments, surveys, or personal experiences and anecdotes. Second hand research is research from getting other ideas and or information such as books, periodicals, and web sites. All evidence of work must be trustworthy, dependably, and credible resources (The Writing Lab & The Owl at Purdue, 2016). The reason for an argument is to persuade other people or another person, to your point of view (Hult & Huckin, 2016). The 5 key terms of information are specific thing to look upon when creating an argument. Persuade who are undecided to agree with you, reinforce views with those who already agree with you, try and change the minds of those who are in disagreement, what is being written, the writer should have his/her own feeling to the choose looked upon or frowned upon, and finally, a college student whether they are or not, they need to show the ability to work through the

My academic writing has greatly improved. I now make an active effort to use a thesaurus to vary my language. I also incorporate more transitional phrases to create a better flow in my essays. I organize my paragraphs to make sure the information and supporting evidences flows well. Even though I understood my claims and thesis needed to be supported by credible sources I analyze who and where the source was published. Specifically, the class discussion in the response to videos we watched two videos about high fructose corn syrup. I stated,” The first video, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – ‘Party’ TV original commercial, is an advertisement made by The Corn Refiners Association”. I acknowledged that the first video was made by an association that could have biased opinions about high fructose corn syrup. By acknowledging where the source came from I demonstrate that if this video was used for evidence for safe fructose consumption it would not be a credible source because of its ties to the corn association.

Throughout quarter 1, I believe that my ability to find and apply evidence to my writings has improved over the quarter. Although this skill is still a work in progress for me, I have noticed tremendous growth in my own confidence through it. My credibility of my evidence has improved through class discussions.

The essays chosen for the portfolio were included based on which essays depicted the greatest amount of growth since the beginning of the year. This growth includes improvements in my control of language, the focus throughout the essay, and the quality of analysis. Therefore, the ineffective essays showcase repetitive language, an excess of informalities, a lack of cohesive argument, and analysis that is explained poorly in order to contrast more strikingly with the effective essays, which contain a more sophisticated grasp on word choice and sentence structure, as well as a clear argument that provides proper analysis. The synthesis essay was chosen due to the analysis that accompanies the sources as opposed to only summarizing the sources.