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Luo, Linlin; Kiewra, Kenneth A. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2019
Students often fail to write effective synthesis essays that compare multiple sources across common intersecting categories. Instead, they compose flawed essays that focus primarily on one source and then add a few ideas from other sources (patchwriting); report ideas from all sources in a disjointed fashion (tag-all writing); or draw from one…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Synthesis, Writing Instruction, Essays