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Informative Synthesis Essay

*Essay format and citation style: MLA*

Assignments and Prewritings

• Informative Synthesis Essay Assignment
• Prewriting 1: Topic, Subtopic, Sources (Full text version)
• Sample Prewriting 1
• Prewriting 2: ICE-T Baby!  Developing Body Paragraphs (Full Text version)
• Sample Prewriting 2
• Prewriting 3: Developing an Ending and Beginning
• Sample Prewriting 3
• Gradesheet with Links to helpful sources

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Informative Synthesis Sources Page

This page has links to sources you can choose from when writing your essay.  You must have 4 sources and at least 2 of them must come from the sources I provide here.  You can research the other 2 or use ones I’ve provided.

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Essay Samples

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Read|Watch

• The Pearson Guide to the 2021 MLA Handbook
• Writing down the Basics:
• Formal Writing – Documenting Resources, pp. 59-70
• MLA Authors and Titles, Using Numbers in MLA Citation, MLA In-text Citations, and MLA Works Cited Page Citations, pp. 75-86
• A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing: Chapter 5: “Writing a Summary and Synthesizing”
• A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing:Chapter 11, “Ethical Source Integration: Citation, Quoting, and Paraphrasing”   
• What is “Academic” Writing?  
• “How to Write a Synthesis Essay”
• How to Synthesize Written Information from Multiple Sources
• How to Deconstruct a Meme
• Integrating Non-Traditional Sources in Academic Writing
• Source Integration Tips  
•  Ethical Source Integration: Citation, Quoting, and Paraphrasing  
•  Integrating Non-Traditional Sources in Academic Writing  

• Revision Checklist
• Grading Rubric