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This is not an essay, per se. It is more, a
synthesis exercise. After you read the assignment below you may say, didn’t we
just do that on the blog? And I would respond, absolutely! That was why you did
it; to begin to consider the meaning of the book, one sentence at a time.
As you
read TC Boyle, number on a page from 1-10. Write out the ten sentences from the
book that catch your eye or make you think. After each sentence, give a brief
description of what the sentences means to you or why you included it. At the
end of those ten sentences comes the more difficult but rewarding part. You are
going to write a synthesis. A synthesis is a type of writing where you take
various unrelated writings and find some insight drawn from them. It is writing
that creates connections between thoughts. You are not comparing the thoughts,
but you are using these ten sentences to say one thing. When you examine the
ten sentences together, what new insight do you gain that may have been
undeveloped just by looking at one or two sentences.
That will
be labeled “Synthesis” and will be at the bottom of the numbered ten sentences.
As I
said, this is a little weird, but it usually produces good writing. You are
simply numbering and writing about ten sentences and then writing about how
they are connected.
Since it
is a bit odd, I wanted to give you one good example of the synthesis part. That is in the next post. As you can see, the author has located clearly what the one area is that
ties his ten sentences together.
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