5th topic

Synthesis

Finally we reached at the end of the topics for this semester, and this is the last topic of this subject. In this topic we have learnt all about synthesis. At first she started with the definition of the synthesis. According to my understanding “Synthesizing is like putting a puzzle together and we have to sort out our thinking and put it in the right place.”  Fundamentally, Synthesis is a system of organization. There are many kinds of strategies we can use to organize the information such as Chronological Organization, Hierarchical Organization and lastly Alphabetical Organization.

  

To finish the topic early she started describing in more details as fast as she can. She also maintains that there has a difference between summarizing and synthesis. As she has point out to us that Summarizing is identifying key points and organizing thoughts, a listing of the parts, and summarizing usually occurs at the end. Beside that she also stated that synthesizing is the creation of a whole, but it goes on throughout the process of reading; not just at the end.  It is bringing together different ideas and facts and weaving them together into a tapestry, something much larger than all the threads. From my understanding, summarizing also is part of synthesis.  We can’t synthesize if we don’t know how to summarize.  Summarizing is the act of briefly presenting the main point.  When teaching summary, teachers should encourage readers to retell information by including important ideas but not telling too much. Alhamdulillah finally with this topic we have done our information literacy subject.