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Case Study: Synthesis means bringing together and making sense of varied and complex sources for a specific audience and purpose. In this class, you'll be synthesizing your research to create a researched argument for an audience of your choosing. Another way to think of synthesis is to consider yourself, the writer/researcher, as a puzzle master who is creating an argument (the completed puzzle) for your audience (viewers), by seeing how certain puzzle pieces fit together, clash, or form patterns (sources/research).

To get in the habit of using your Journals, please answer these questions in your first post. (Aim to answer 2-3 questions in 1-2 paragraphs total).

Given Lockett's assessment about the complexities of conducting research in the age of the Internet, why do you think it is important to conduct this kind of research-based synthesis work? Why should researchers work with different types of sources and sift through a variety of data and resources? What do we as researchers or audience members take away from authors who do this work? Is it worth it? What are some examples of this type of synthesis work you've done before?

*Hint (use this passage on p. 237 from Lockett's piece to think through and guide your thought process)*

Question: "Of course, finding sources may be easy, but strategically incorporating them into an argument may seem impossible to today's writers. How could any teacher reasonably expect a student to come up with a thesis when they are seconds away from an uncountable selection of sources and communities of knowledge? What incentive does any researcher have to make new ideas in the data deluge? When almost anything that can be conceived is searchable via the Internet, what is the researcher really responsible for? Verifying data? Deliberating about its significance? Informing their social media networks?"