Describe how you found sources and analyzed them for inclusion Body.

Introduction (Use the title of your paper for the header)

Introduce the topic and the question(s) that guide the review/synthesis
Provide an appropriate background and context (establishes your point of view/reason for conducting the review/synthesis)
Forecast key topics
Describe how you found sources and analyzed them for inclusion
Body

The sections (subheadings) for the body of your paper will come from your synthesis matrix. The Purdue Owl website provides the following suggestions for the body of your paper.

Summarize and synthesize: Give an overview of the main points of each source and combine them into a coherent whole
Analyze and interpret: Don’t just paraphrase other researchers – add your own interpretations where possible, discussing the significance of findings in relation to the literature as a whole

Critically Evaluate: Mention the strengths and weaknesses of your sources
Write in well-structured paragraphs: Use transition words and topic sentences to draw connections, comparisons, and contrasts.

Use:
Carpenter, T. P., Fennema,
E., & Franke, M. L. (1996). Cognitively Guided Instruction: A Knowledge
Base for Reform in Primary Mathematics Instruction. The Elementary School
Journal, 97(1), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1086/461846

Carpenter, T. P., Carpenter, T. P., Fennema, E., Franke, M.
L., Levi, L., & Empson, S. B. (2015). Children’s mathematics: Cognitively
guided instruction. Portsmouth, NH,: Heinemann.

Carpenter, T. P., Franke,
M. L., Johnson, N. C., Turrou, A. C., & Wager, A. A. (2017). Young
children’s mathematics: cognitively guided instruction in early childhood
education. Heinemann.
Chambers, D. L. (1994).
Promising Research, Programs, and Projects: Cognitively Guided Instruction. Teaching
Children Mathematics, 1(2), 116.
https://doi.org/10.5951/tcm.1.2.0116

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