General Education Information Literacy at Millersville University

This video focuses on strategies for writing a strong paper that brings together ideas from multiple sources, including identifying main ideas, and paraphrasing and summarizing techniques.

This tutorial defines and explores information synthesis, including strategies for bringing together ideas and facts from multiple different sources at various stages in the research process, including background research and note taking, annotated bibliographies, and outlines. It also reviews different examples of final products of synthesis, such as literature reviews, persuasive essays, and research papers.

This quiz corresponds with the multimedia on synthesizing information.

Link goes to example assignment provided by University of Texas

Synthesizing scholarly sources is a key aspect of information literacy with wide-reaching applications across scholarship and communities of learning and/or practice, no matter the discipline. With a synthesis matrix, students are required to use their understanding of sources (often self-selected through previous research efforts) to organize arguments, perspectives, and findings from multiple sources into a holistic and thematic understanding of the information. 

This tutorial defines and explores information synthesis, including strategies for bringing together ideas and facts from multiple different sources at various stages in the research process, including background research and note taking, annotated bibliographies, and outlines. It also reviews different examples of final products of synthesis, such as literature reviews, persuasive essays, and research papers.

This quiz corresponds with the multimedia on synthesizing information.

Link goes to example assignment provided by University of Texas

Synthesizing scholarly sources is a key aspect of information literacy with wide-reaching applications across scholarship and communities of learning and/or practice, no matter the discipline. With a synthesis matrix, students are required to use their understanding of sources (often self-selected through previous research efforts) to organize arguments, perspectives, and findings from multiple sources into a holistic and thematic understanding of the information. 

Use this tutorial to encourage students to develop a scholarly mindset. In this tutorial, students will learn how their projects help build the body of work in a given field. Additionally, students will become familiar with the process of attribution and critical evaluation.

This video explains when citation chasing could be useful and how to citation chase.

Guide at Benedictine University that presents options for assessing “scholarship as a conversation”

The purpose of this activity is to recognize how a quote can be taken out of context in subtle (and overt) ways. The goal is to locate a quote within a news article and trace it through multiple layers of context to discover how journalists’ interpretations of quotes impact our understanding of actual events and news.

This tutorial provides students with an overview of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing depending on the goal of their writing, plus how to accurately represent their sources.

Link goes to example assignment provided by University of Texas

An annotated bibliography activity requires students to properly cite a set of sources (which can either be selected by the instructor or by the students) and then produce relevant annotations for each entry. These annotations might focus on the content or argument of a source, source methodology, source credibility, the potential uses of a source in constructing an argument, and more. With an annotated bibliography, the final product on its own addresses several outcomes. However, with well-designed and intentional checkpoints and assessments along the way, it can address all of them to some extent.

Link goes to example assignment provided by University of Texas

Synthesizing scholarly sources is a key aspect of information literacy with wide-reaching applications across scholarship and communities of learning and/or practice, no matter the discipline. With a synthesis matrix, students are required to use their understanding of sources (often self-selected through previous research efforts) to organize arguments, perspectives, and findings from multiple sources into a holistic and thematic understanding of the information.