What specific contrasts or opposing viewpoints seem important?

Artifact 3: Three-Article Explanatory Synthesis
Your second Artifact of Learning was a mini-inquiry, a short delve into a topic. Now, after delving into a focused topic, with database research, you’ll practice synthesizing sources toward a One-Page, Three-Article Explanatory Synthesis.
What you will need:
One blank page.
Three articles.
synthesis matrix filled-in with specific takeaways from the three articles.
Critical thinking skills.
Process Steps:
Within your synthesis matrix, highlight, underline, or label specific overlaps, comparisons, contrasts, trajectories, etc.
What specific areas of the matrix seem most important? Identify them.
What seems most important, prevalent, obvious? What stands out?
What seems useful to compare? What overlaps do you see?
What specific contrasts or opposing viewpoints seem important?
Have you learned something new, based on putting these three articles together? What have you learned?
What related topics, questions, or ideas, might be useful to continue to explore?
Choose a structure. How will you begin to explain the relationships between your three articles? Chronologically? By themes? By comparisons & contrasts?
Whatever you choose, do not provide a list of the three sources with simple summary. Summary is not synthesis.
Develop an explanatory thesis statement.
Work toward a thesis statement that synthesizes the main points in your chosen structure.
Develop your topic sentences based on your answers to the questions above
Develop your body paragraphs to support the claims in your topic sentences.
Wrap it up in one page. If you go longer than a page, exercise your revision and editing skills.
Double-spaced. Times New Roman, 12pt font.

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